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taco
[ tah-koh; Spanish tah-kaw ]
/ ˈtɑ koʊ; Spanish ˈtɑ kɔ /
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noun, plural ta·cos [tah-kohz; Spanish tah-kaws]. /ˈtɑ koʊz; Spanish ˈtɑ kɔs/.
Mexican Cooking. a tortilla filled with various ingredients, as beans, rice, chopped meat, cheese, and tomatoes, and folded over in half or rolled into a loose cylinder shape: My favorite breakfast taco has eggs, bacon, and cheese on a flour tortilla.The downside of hard-shell tacos is that you can’t fit as much stuff in a fried tortilla.
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First appeared around 1750, and is related to the French word “braguette” for the name of codpiece armor.
First appeared in 1610, based on the French word “baguette” for the long loaf of bread.
First appeared in 1555, and is related to the French word “raquette” for a netted bat.
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First recorded in 1930–35; from Mexican Spanish; perhaps a shortening of taco de minero “miner’s plug,” from the resemblance of the food to an explosive charge used in silver mines, from Spanish taco “wad, plug, wedge”; further origin uncertain
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taco
/ (ˈtɑːkəʊ) /
noun plural -cos
Mexican cookery a tortilla folded into a roll with a filling and usually fried
Word Origin for taco
from Mexican Spanish, from Spanish: literally, a snack, a bite to eat
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