muffuletta
English
muffuletta (sandwich, def. 2) with muffuletta (salad def. 3)
Alternative forms
- muffeletta, muffaletta
Etymology
From Sicilian, diminutive of muffe (mold/mushroom), perhaps due to the appearance of the round sandwich bread being reminiscent of a mushroom cap.
Noun
muffuletta (countable and uncountable, plural muffulettas)
- A type of Sicilian sesame bread.
- A type of sandwich, typically made in New Orleans and containing layers of olive salad, mozzarella and meats, made using that bread.
- 2015, James Grissom, Follies of God: Tennessee Williams and the Women of the Fog, →ISBN:
- ... a stop in the Central Grocery, where Tenn had a beer and one of the city's cherished muffuletta sandwiches, which he cut into four wedges and ate as carefully as he chose his words, which came forth at a slow, painful pace.
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- A kind of olive salad made with giardiniera.
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