muffuletta

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English

muffuletta (sandwich, def. 2) with muffuletta (salad def. 3)

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Etymology

From Sicilian, diminutive of muffe (“mold, mushroom”), perhaps due to the appearance of the round sandwich bread being reminiscent of a mushroom cap.

Noun

muffuletta (countable and uncountable, plural muffulettas)

  1. A type of Sicilian sesame bread.
  2. A type of sandwich, typically made in New Orleans and containing layers of olive salad, mozzarella and meats, made using that bread.
    • 2015, James Grissom, Follies of God: Tennessee Williams and the Women of the Fog, →ISBN:
      ... a stop in the Central Grocery, where Tenn had a beer and one of the city's cherished muffuletta sandwiches, which he cut into four wedges and ate as carefully as he chose his words, which came forth at a slow, painful pace.
  3. A kind of olive salad made with giardiniera.

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