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Parma_ham

Parma ham

English

Noun

Parma ham (uncountable)

  1. Prosciutto, especially the type associated with the cuisine of Parma.
    • 2007, World Trade Organization, Dispute Settlement Reports 2005, Volume XIX, page 9228,
      Secondly, the Panel's reasoning appears to be based on an implicit similarity between the products at issue, on the one hand—that is, frozen and salted chicken cuts—and products such as Parma ham, prosciutto, and jamón serrano, on the other hand.
    • 2010, Darwin Porter, Mark Baker, Danforth Prince, Frommer′s Europe, page 1021,
      If you want a more substantial meal, we recommend you start with the seasonal green salad with melon and summer herbs, or cured Parma ham slices in a roulade with walnut-oil vinaigrette.
    • 2011, Christopher Wadlow, The Law of Passing-off: Unfair Competition by Misrepresentation, page 310,
      Since hardly any Parma ham sold in England was actually sliced in the presence of the consumer as Italian law required, it would have been difficut or impossible to say of any Italian Parma ham producer that he had goodwill at the retail level in England at all.