Definitions
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- noun meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked)
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Examples
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If you're really feeling indulgent, try the "Gourmet Sandwich," which includes paté, a French-style cured ham called jambon, a couple of different kinds of cured pork, and peppered ham.
Austinist 2008
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If you're really feeling indulgent, try the "Gourmet Sandwich," which includes paté, a French-style cured ham called jambon, a couple of different kinds of cured pork, and peppered ham.
Austinist KarinKross 2008
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Sure "jambon" makes the ingredient list of their quintessential sandwich, the accidental creation of 19th-century workers who left their ham-and-cheese lunches by a radiator.
Beth Perry: Croque Notes: Stalking the Best Croque-Monsieur in Paris 2009
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Coffee and chocolate were already made hot; cream and new-laid eggs were added to the treat, and M. Emanuel, always generous, would have given a large order for "jambon" and "confitures" in addition, but that some of us, who presumed perhaps upon our influence, insisted that it would be a most reckless waste of victual.
Villette Charlotte Bront�� 1835
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also, Jabon looks a lot like the french word "jambon" meaning ham.
A Teaching Moment 2010
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"I don't think so, Max", I pointed out, amused at the thought of asking the caissière whether she might "throw in" one more pack of jambon and then she'd have herself a buyer!
Brocante / Antiques 2010
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Ho! It is so beautiful and cultural But I have never think to live there. jambon
Largest Solar Powered Building in the World Unveiled in China 2009
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The black truffle tarama and the jambon pata negra are also well worth putting in the takeaway bag.
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"I don't think so, Max", I pointed out, amused at the thought of asking the caissière whether she might "throw in" one more pack of jambon and then she'd have herself a buyer!
Brocante / Antiques 2010
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For this Croque Monsiuer Burger, instead of bacon, I wrap each burger in one slice of jambon de Bayonne, or, more easily found, prosciutto, which is the ham with which my favorite croque monsieur in Paris is made.
Kerry Saretsky: Franglais: The Croque Monsieur Burger Kerry Saretsky 2010
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