Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In Samoa, a favorite native dish, indispensable at feasts, consisting of the custard-like juice expressed from grated coconuts, to which a little salt water is added, inclosed together with tender young taro leaves (Caladium Colocasia) in an older leaf, and baked in a native oven.
Examples
“Afterwards Ben came with palusami, [41] and now to-day comes a young native girl from Mrs. Blacklock with enormous bananas, long green beans, a dozen eggs, and a bunch of flowers, and”
“At tailgates, they raise a Samoan flag and a Bears flag and feast on traditional Samoan food, including Samoan chop suey and palusami, which can be made with spinach and coconut milk.”
“a marriage in the church, with its attendant mild excitements, and gluttonies of baked pig and fowls, and _palusami_ and other delicacies, and the receiving and giving of many presents.”
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