GRAVLAX


Meaning of GRAVLAX in English

[ 'gravlaks ]

(also gravadlax )

■ noun a Scandinavian dish of dry-cured salmon marinated in herbs.

Origin

Swed., from grav 'trench' + lax 'salmon' (from the former practice of burying the salmon in salt in a hole in the ground).

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