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alfredo
US/ælˈfɹedoʊ/
noun
What it means
- countableuncountablenoun adjunctcookingThe sauce made from butter and Parmesan cheese used in dishes such as fettuccine Alfredo.
- countableuncountableAny dish of this type.
In a sentence
Two days after kicking three field goals against the New Orleans Saints to help the Bears reach Super Bowl XLI, Gould was standing over a gas stove, stirring the alfredo sauce that was simmering in a pot.
2007 January 30, Karen Crouse, “Dash of Success Spices Up Gould’s Neighborhood”, in The New York Times, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Jun 2015
Where it comes from
From Alfredo alla Scrofa, an Italian restaurant in Rome where the pasta dish fettuccine Alfredo was originally served, named after its founder Alfredo Di Lelio. Doublet of Alfred.
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