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Definition of Empanada
1. Noun. Any of a variety of stuffed pastries found in Spanish and Latin American cuisine ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Empanada
1. a pastry turnover [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Empanada
Literary usage of Empanada
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lima: Or, Sketches of the Capital of Peru, Historical, Statistical by Manuel Atanasio Fuentes (1866)
"The sumptuousness of the banquet was estimated by the cost of the empanada.
This cake, made by pastry-cooks, was always in the shape of an oblong rectangle. ..."
2. Neuman and Baretti's Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages by Henry Neuman, Giuseppe Baretti (1851)
"empanada, if. Meat-pie, meat covered with a crust, or baked in a crust. Hacer una
empanada. To conceal part of an affair. Agua empanada, Iced water ; muddy ..."
3. A Dictionary of the Portuguese and English Languages, in Two Parts ...by Antonio Vieyra, Jacinto Dias do Canto by Antonio Vieyra, Jacinto Dias do Canto (1827)
"empanada de janella, sash-window, made of linen or paper, ... of empanada.
(Spanish.) Empanar, va to make dull, to dull, (speaking of a looking- glass, ..."
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