"tamalito" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Spanish tamalito.",
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          "ref": "1958, Helen Evans Brown, “Introduction”, in Elena Zelayeta, Elena’s Secrets of Mexican Cooking, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., page xii",
          "text": "They make, freeze, and market Elena’s famous tortillas and tamales, tacos, enchiladas, and tamalitos.",
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          "ref": "1989, H[arvey] Russell Bernard, Jesús Salinas Pedraza, Native Ethnography: A Mexican Indian Describes His Culture, Newbury Park, Calif.: SAGE Publications, Inc., page 548",
          "text": "In the plaza there are people selling many things to eat, such as coffee, tamales, tamalitos, and tacos with cabbage, lettuce, onion and garlic added.",
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          "ref": "1995, Marjie Lambert, Recipes from the Pacific Rim: Regional Specialties from the West Coast, Mexico and Hawaii, Edison, N.J.: Chartwell Books, page 28",
          "text": "The perfect corn husk for a tamalito is about 5 inches wide at its midpoint.",
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          "ref": "1998, Emma Sepúlveda, From Border Crossings to Campaign Trail: Chronicle of a Latina in Politics, Falls Church, Va.: Azul Editions, page 147",
          "text": "Sometimes the woman would say, “I’m just making tamalitos. Would you stay and have a tamalito?”",
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          "ref": "1998, Cherry Hamman, Mayan Cooking: Recipes from the Sun Kingdoms of Mexico, New York, N.Y.: Hippocrene Books, page 134",
          "text": "Beginning at one end, roll the patty or tortilla into a tamalito like a jelly roll and place it in the center of two or three overlapped chaya leaves.",
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        "A small tamale"
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