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briciola

crumb, morsel

noun bree-CHOH-lah Rare
Food & Drink Ingredients

Also means

tiny bit

Usage Note

Briciola is primarily a bread crumb or any tiny fragment of food. Figuratively it can mean a scrap or trace of something: non c'è una briciola di verità ('there is not a crumb of truth'). The regular plural is le briciole. Do not confuse with bricciola, a rare variant spelling.

Examples

"Ha lasciato solo briciole nel piatto."

Natural Translation

She left only crumbs on the plate.

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