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countable and uncountable, plural charquis
(South America, Central America, Western US) jerky quotations examples
When it was dark, we made a fire beneath a little arbour of bamboos, fried our charqui (or dried slips of beef), took our maté, and were quite comfortable.
1839, Charles Darwin, Journal of Researches, John Murray, published 1913, page 273