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tamalito

tamalito noun: a small tamale.

tamalito: a small tamale
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Noun

tamalito (plural tamalitos)

  1. A small tamale
    • They make, freeze, and market Elena’s famous tortillas and tamales, tacos, enchiladas, and tamalitos.1958, Helen Evans Brown, “Introduction”, in Elena Zelayeta, Elena’s Secrets of Mexican Cooking, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., page xii
    • In the plaza there are people selling many things to eat, such as coffee, tamales, tamalitos, and tacos with cabbage, lettuce, onion and garlic added.1989, H[arvey] Russell Bernard, Jesús Salinas Pedraza, Native Ethnography: A Mexican Indian Describes His Culture, Newbury Park, Calif.: SAGE Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 548

Examples of tamalito in a sentence

  • The perfect corn husk for a tamalito is about 5 inches wide at its midpoint.1995, Marjie Lambert, Recipes from the Pacific Rim: Regional Specialties from the West Coast, Mexico and Hawaii, Edison, N.J.: Chartwell...
  • Sometimes the woman would say, “I’m just making tamalitos.1998, Emma Sepúlveda, From Border Crossings to Campaign Trail: Chronicle of a Latina in Politics, Falls Church, Va.: Azul Editions, →ISBN...
  • Beginning at one end, roll the patty or tortilla into a tamalito like a jelly roll and place it in the center of two or three overlapped chaya leaves.1998, Cherry Hamman, Mayan Cooking: Recipes from the Sun Kingdoms of Mexico, New York, N.Y.: Hippocrene Books, →ISBN, page 134:

Forms of tamalito

pluraltamalitos

Origin of tamalito

From Spanish tamalito.

Questions about tamalito

What does tamalito mean?
Tamalito means a small tamale.
How do you use tamalito in a sentence?
The perfect corn husk for a tamalito is about 5 inches wide at its midpoint.
What part of speech is tamalito?
Tamalito is a noun.
What is the plural of tamalito?
The plural of tamalito is tamalitos.

Words near tamalito in the dictionary

  1. tamaleras
  2. tamalero
  3. tamaleros
  4. tamales
  5. tamalin
  6. tamalito
  7. tamalitos
  8. Tamalpais
  9. Tamalpais-Homestead Valley
  10. tamals
  11. Tamami

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