Tamalero

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who makes or sells tamales.

    "The tamalero followed in hot pursuit and when he came back found his tamales in the gutter and his pushcart burned up by the benzoline of his open air lamp."

Example

More examples

"The tamalero followed in hot pursuit and when he came back found his tamales in the gutter and his pushcart burned up by the benzoline of his open air lamp."

Etymology

From Spanish tamalero.

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