a Mexican dish made of minced meat mixed with crushed maize and seasonings, wrapped in maize husks and steamed
Word origin
C19: erroneously for tamal, from Mexican Spanish, from Nahuatl tamalli
tamale in American English
(təˈmɑli)
US
noun
a Mexican dish consisting of cornmeal dough around a filling as of minced meat and red peppers, the whole then wrapped in corn husks or plantain leaves and cooked by baking, steaming, etc.
Word origin
MexSp tamal, pl. tamales < Nahuatl tamalli
Examples of 'tamale' in a sentence
tamale
```Born for tamale, corn husk falls on you out of the blue.