pizze

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/ˈpiːt.seɪ/

A form of pizza — A baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread crust typically topped before baking with tomato sauce, cheese, and other ingredients such as meat or vegetables.

OriginItalian pizze →
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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralrareplural of pizza

    The most exquisite pizze are cooked in a forno a legna (woodfired oven).

    2000, Matthew Evans, Italy: World Food, page 2
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    […] they manufacture the detestable tarts called pizze, very popular in this part of the world.

    1938, Giuseppe Orioli, Adventures of a Bookseller, page 321

    Twice a week his mother baked bread, and twice a week there were pizze fritte for breakfast instead of cocoa and stale bread.

    1957, Armando T. Perretta, Take a Number, page 82

    The city seemed like one gigantic fry-shop, with ‘zeppole’, ‘pizze’ and ‘calzoni’ sizzling on every street-corner.

    1973, Maria-Antonietta Macciocchi, Partito Comunista Italiano, et al., Letters from Inside the Italian Communist Party to Louis Althusser, page 121

    The variety of pizze is immense. The true Roman pizza, for instance, is made with onions and oil, no tomato.

    1999, Elizabeth David, Italian Food, page 115

    Umbria is rich in paste, pizze, savoury torte, minestre and polenta dishes.

    2004, Anna Del Conte, The Classic Food of Northern Italy, page 203

Origin

  1. Italianpizze
  2. Englishpizze

English irregular plural forms are usually from the plural form of the singular form’s etymon, which is Neapolitan pizze, the plural of pizza; however, it is much more likely to have been borrowed from Italian pizze, due to the worldwide influence of Italian cuisine.

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Chicago

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