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smoke-cured

smoke-cured

4.9
Meat or fish preserved and given a smoky taste by drying in smoke
  • adjective
  • /smoʊk kɜrd/
  • Specialized
translation icon : curado al humo
  • The chef prepared a delicious sandwich with smoke-cured salmon and cream cheese.

Examples

  • For breakfast, we enjoyed smoke-cured bacon with scrambled eggs and toast.

  • I will say that honestly, the flavor isn't "piggie" so much as a mild smoke taste; most American bacon is smoke-cured.

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  • The delicatessen offered a variety of smoke-cured meats, including ham and brisket.

Synonyms

smoked
vssmoke-cured
1 2.1

Meat or fish dried and given a smoky flavor by burning wood

is preserved and given flavor by drying using wood fire fumes
smoke-dried
vssmoke-cured
  • Specialized
5.4

Meat or fish kept for a long time by hanging near a wood fire

is focused on adding flavor through a preserving treatment with wood fire fumes
cured
vssmoke-cured
3.2

Food preserved with salt, smoke, or drying

is specifically a preserving method that adds flavor using drying and wood fire treatment

Antonyms

fresh
778 1.0

Recently made or gathered food that is not spoiled

How Smoky

smoke-cured
  • Specialized
4.9
unsmoked
1 4.0

Surface Forms

smoke-cured positive

Morphology

smoke-cured = smoke + cured (transparent) = smoke + cure + ed

The adjective is a clear compound of 'smoke' and 'cured' meaning preserved/flavored by smoke; components and relation are productive and directly derivable.

Etymology

Smoke-cured comes from the two simple words smoke and cured. Here smoke is from burning wood and cured means 'preserved', so the term describes meat or fish that is dried and flavored by wood smoke to keep it and give it a rich taste.