pomodoro sauce

noun

A simple Italian tomato pasta sauce.

Meanings

nounpomodoro sauce (countable and uncountable, plural pomodoro sauces)

plural pomodoro sauces

  1. countableuncountablecookingA simple Italian tomato pasta sauce.

Origin

  1. Italianpomodoro“tomato”
  2. Englishpomodoro sauce

From pomodoro + sauce. From Italian pomodoro (“tomato”), this being the Italian version of the sauce.

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