carpaccio
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Related to carpaccio: Vittore Carpaccio
car·pac·cio
(kär-pä′chō)n.
1. Very thinly sliced raw meat or fish, especially beef or tuna, garnished with a sauce.
2. A vegetarian dish in which zucchini, squash, or similar food is thinly sliced, served raw, and garnished with a dressing.
[Italian, after Vittore Carpacciowho favored red pigments.]
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carpaccio
(ˌkɑːˈpætʃɪəʊ; Italian karˈpattʃo)n, pl -os
(Cookery) an Italian dish of thin slices of raw meat or fish
[possibly after the Italian painter Vittore Carpaccio (?1460–?1525)]
Carpaccio
(ˌkɑːˈpætʃɪəʊ; -tʃəʊ; Italian karˈpattʃo)n
(Biography) Vittore (vitˈtoːre). ?1460–?1525, Italian painter of the Venetian school
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Car•pac•cio
(kɑrˈpɑ tʃoʊ, -tʃiˌoʊ)n.
Vittore, c1450–1525, Venetian painter.
car•pac•cio
(kɑrˈpɑ tʃoʊ, -tʃiˌoʊ)n.
thinly sliced raw beef or fish served with a piquant sauce.
[after V. Carpaccio]
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