salpicón
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See also: salpicon
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]salpicón m (plural salpicones)
- chopped, seasoned meat or seafood
- salad, fruit salad
- 1605, Miguel de Cervantes, “Capítulo I”, in El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha, Primera parte:
- Una olla de algo más vaca que carnero, salpicón las más noches, duelos y quebrantos los sábados, lantejas los viernes, algún palomino de añadidura los domingos, consumían las tres partes de su hacienda
- A pot of stew of rather more beef than mutton, a salad on most nights, scraps on Saturdays, lentils on Fridays, and a pigeon or so extra on Sundays, made away with three-quarters of his income.
Descendants
[edit]- → Portuguese: salpicão
Further reading
[edit]- “salpicón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10