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prosciutto.

A dry-cured ham from Italy, thinly sliced.

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noun/pɹəˈʃuː.toʊ/US/pɹəˈʒuː.toʊ/US
  1. A dry-cured ham from Italy, thinly sliced.

    countable · uncountable
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Italian prosciutto (meaning 'ham', in general), from asciutto, with a change of prefix, or from a Vulgar Latin *perexsūctus, from per + Latin exsūctus.

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