Also 7 Westfalia. [med.L., f. OHG. Westfalo (G. -fale, -phale) an inhabitant of the district now called Westfalen in German.] The name of a province of western Germany lying between Hanover and Rhenish Prussia, used attrib. with bacon, gammon, or ham.

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c. 1650.  Townshend, Poems (1912), 8. Give us a salt Westphalia Gammon, Not meat to eat, but meat to drink.

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1656.  Blount, Glossogr., Westphalia Bacon.

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1664.  F. Hawkins, Youths Behav., II. 178. A Westfalia Ham of Bacon. Ibid., 180. A Westphalia Ham.

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1682.  N. O., Boileau’s Lutrin, I. 178. His face … recalls the good Westphalia-Ham.

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1710.  P. Lamb, Royal Cookery, 66. To make a Westphalia-Ham.

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1715.  Lady G. Baillie, Househ. Bk. (S. H. S.), 102. For 174/11 lb. westfalia hamb at 11d., 0 15 7.

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