tabasco

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tabasco A thin piquant sauce prepared by fermentation of powdered dried fruits of chilli pepper, mixed with spirit vinegar and salt. Traditionally used with Mexican and Caribbean foods, first formulated in Louisiana by Edmund McIllhenny, 1868.

tabasco

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tabasco pungent sauce made from capsicum. XVII (tauasco). Name of a river and state of Mexico.

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