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/təˈmɑː.liː/ · noun
A Mexican dish of cornmeal dough shell filled with various ingredients (e.g. chopped beef, pork, sweet filling) then steamed in corn husks..
She would peel back the husk, ladle over the salsa verde, stab a plastic fork straight down into the heart of the masa, and hand the tamale over to me.
Use tamale when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Tamale means A Mexican dish of cornmeal dough shell filled with various ingredients (e.g. chopped beef, pork, sweet filling) then steamed in corn husks..
Common synonyms include humita, tamal.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
She would peel back the husk, ladle over the salsa verde, stab a plastic fork straight down into the heart of the masa, and hand the tamale over to me.
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