bresaola means air-dried salt-cured beef fillet that has been aged about 2-3 months until it becomes very hard and a dark red, almost purple colour. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 90 out of 100.
bresaola is pronounced /bɹɛˈsəʊlə/.
Etymology
From Italian bresaola, from French braiser (“to braise”).
noun
- Air-dried salt-cured beef fillet that has been aged about 2-3 months until it becomes very hard and a dark red, almost purple colour.“In memory, all the food they brought us first was red: the bresaola, the fat tongues of roasted peppers laid on goat's cheese, the radicchio, the white china bowl of radish coronets.”