tortoni

plural tortonis

1. countableuncountableAny of several sorts of ice-cream flavoured with rum or sherry, often containing chopped cherries and topped with almonds, crumbled macaroons, etc.First known use early 20th c.

   With my own fair hands I've made individual almond tortonis for dessert. Cook thinks I'm a wonder! Each masterpiece in a fluted silver dish, silver candies sprinkled on the pink whipped cream! O-oh!

   1936 August–September, Pearl Norton Swet, “The Medici Boots”, in Farnsworth Wright, editor, Weird Tales: A Magazine of the Bizarre and Unusual, volume 28, number 2, Indianapolis, Ind.: Popular Fiction Pub. Co., →OCLC, page 201, column 1

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   Nevertheless, the municipal band still played three evenings a week to great crowds on the Punta and in Central Park, the theatres were full of gayety, and the most zealous revellers continued to eat tortonis and sip ices every evening in the pretty cafés that are half outdoors and almost on the sidewalk.

   1906 October 20, William Inglis, “The Collapse of the Cuban House of Cards”, in Harper’s Weekly: A Journal of Civilization, volume 1, number 2600, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC

   Soul Kiss / On a small fancy platter place a quarter of a brick of nesselrode or tortoni ice cream; on top of this put some stiff whipped cream in which lay some slices of banana; put a cherry at either end and also in the center, and sprinkle with nuts, if desired.

   1915, “Soda Fountain Formulas”, in The Dispenser’s Formulary or Soda Water Guide: […], 3rd revised and enlarged edition, New York, N.Y.: D. O. Haynes & Co., […], →OCLC, page 140

   A big smile from the courtly waiter named Frank at Dominick's, an Italian restaurant in the Bronx. Huge hamburger steaks. Little tortoni in paper cups, vanilla ice cream topped with macaroon crumbs.

   2010, Todd Gitlin, Undying: A Novel, Berkeley, Calif.: Counterpoint, →ISBN, page 61