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Definition of Tamale
1. Noun. A city in northern Ghana.
Group relationships: Ghana, Gold Coast, Republic Of Ghana
2. Noun. Corn and cornmeal dough stuffed with a meat mixture then wrapped in corn husks and steamed.
Definition of Tamale
1. n. A Mexican dish made of crushed maize mixed with minced meat, seasoned with red pepper, dipped in oil, and steamed.
Definition of Tamale
1. Noun. Mexican dish of cornmeal dough shell filled with various ingredients (e.g. chopped beef, pork, sweet filling) then steamed in corn husks. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tamale
1. a Mexican dish [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tamale
Literary usage of Tamale
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bohemian San Francisco: Its Restaurants and Their Most Famous Recipes; the by Clarence Edgar Edwords (1914)
"In the genuine tamale the interior is the sauce and meat that goes with the corn
meal ... There is also a sweet tamale, made with raisins or preserves. ..."
2. Reports of the Immigration Commission by William Paul Dillingham (1911)
"tamale MEN. The standard of living of 4 groups of partners engaged in the tamale
business in San ... General data for tamale men of San Francisco, Cal. ..."
3. Dialect Notes by American Dialect Society (1890)
"... or tamale; it is seldom used except in the plural. San Antonio goes by the
name of tamale village, tamale. town, ..."
4. Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt: Undertaken by Order of the Old Government by Charles Sigisbert Sonnini, Henry Hunter (1807)
"A short half league below tamale, on the same side, ... Here is another canal,
larger than that of tamale, the direction of which is north-east. ..."
5. Pan-Pacific Cook Book: Savory Bits from the World's Fare by Linie Loyall McLaren (1915)
"tamale LOAF Cut a flank steak into cubes. Chop an onion, a chile pepper and a
... tamale PUDDING—MEXICAN Remove fat and bones from two pounds of fresh pork ..."
6. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Towns,—The headquarters of the administration are at tamale (or Tamari), ...
NNE of tamale. A hundred and forty niiles due south of Gambaga is Salaga. ..."
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