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There are many of these phrases that would seem to be redundancies, or at least prone to being redundated (not that there's anything wrong with that). Scampi means shrimp (pl) in Italian. That doesn't stop us from using it as a word meaning a way of preparing shrimp (among other items). Lox is ultimately (through Yiddish) from the German word for salmon but we use it to mean particularly smoked salmon
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