tamale

noun

A Mexican dish of cornmeal dough shell filled with various ingredients (e.g. chopped beef, pork, sweet filling) then steamed in corn husks.

A city in Ghana, the capital city of the Northern Region.

Roots

tamallitamale- · Nahuatl · wrapped dough

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