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Tamale

noun

(Written also tamal, tomale)

A city in northern Ghana.

Corn and cornmeal dough stuffed with a meat mixture then wrapped in corn husks and steamed.

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... "Smart h——!" retorted the "Boss." "Why, we've got smart men. Look at our school-teachers. Them guys[9] is crammed with guff,[10] and passing examinations all the time; but there ain't one in a thousand that's got sense enough to run a tamale[11] convention. The State governor would get left here if all the boys that wanted office had to pass an examination. We've got something like it here," he said, "that blank Civil Service, that keeps many a natural-born genius out of office; ...

— As A Chinaman Saw Us - Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home • Anonymous

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