pastrami

/pəˈstrɑmi/

/pəˈstrɒmi/

Pastrami is a thin-sliced kind of sandwich meat you can find at any good deli. You might order a pastrami sandwich on rye bread for lunch every Tuesday.

Pastrami is a type of dark, smoked beef that is typically shaved very thin, and piled between sandwich bread, usually rye, and occasionally topped with coleslaw. A great place to sample pastrami is at a traditional Jewish delicatessen — and the word itself comes from the Yiddish pastrame, which is probably rooted in the Turkish basdirma, "dried meat."

Definitions of pastrami

1. noun

   highly seasoned cut of smoked beef
   type of:

   beef, boeuf

   meat from an adult domestic bovine