Definition of "tamales" []

• Plural form of tamale. (noun)

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• "The story about the tamales is about to put me into a diabetic coma."
• "The mole in their tamales is a bit different but equally sublime."
• "When near Tlascala the Tlascallans "sent three hundred turkeys, two hundred baskets of cakes of teutli, which they call tamales, being about two hundred arrobas; that is, fifty hundred weight of bread, which was an extraordinary supply for the Spaniards, considering the distress they were in;" and when at Tlascala, Cortes and his men"