pastrami

[ puh-strah-mee ]
/ pəˈstrɑ mi /

noun

a brisket of beef that has been cured in a mixture of garlic, peppercorns, sugar, coriander seeds, etc., then smoked before cooking.

Origin of pastrami

1935–40; < Yiddish pastrame < Romanian pastramă pressed, cured meat; a Balkanism of uncertain origin (compare Modern Greek pastramâs, Serbo-Croatian pȁstrma), perhaps ultimately < Turkish pastιrma, taken as variant of bastιrma, equivalent to bastιr-, causative stem of bas- press, squeeze + -ma verbal noun suffix

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British Dictionary definitions for pastrami

pastrami
/ (pəˈstrɑːmɪ) /

noun

highly seasoned smoked beef, esp prepared from a shoulder cut

Word Origin for pastrami

from Yiddish, from Romanian pastramǎ, from pǎstra to preserve