Meanings
- pluralplural onlycookingSmall, dark, seedless raisins used especially in Sicilian cuisine, including in savoury dishes.
I purchased passoline currants (dried black seedless grapes), chick pea flour […]
2018 July 25, Faith Willinger, “Cooking with the Duchess of Palma di Montechiaro”, in Faith Willinger, archived from the original on 19 Jul 2019, retrieved 26 Jul 20262 more examples
If I'm being more accurate, it's generally passoline rather than raisins and wild fennel rather than cultivated.
2016 April 3, Caroline, “Pasta con sarde a mare – 'pasta with sardines at sea'”, in Caroline's Cooking, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2025, retrieved 26 Jul 2026They also add passoline, a type of typical Sicilian raisins, different from common dry grapes because is less sweet.
“Fish dishes and street food in the Palermo area cuisine”, in Charminly, archived from the original on 28 Feb 2024, retrieved 26 Jul 2026
Origin
- Italianpassoline
- Englishpassoline
Borrowed from Italian passoline, plural of passolina, the diminutive of passola.
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passoline. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/passoline
“passoline.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/passoline. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “passoline,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/passoline.
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