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tozzetto

small chunk

noun toht-TSET-toh Rare
Food & Drink Dishes

Also means

cantucci-style biscuit

Usage Note

Tozzetto is the diminutive of tozzo (chunk, hunk). In Tuscan culinary tradition tozzetti are hard, twice-baked almond biscuits very similar to cantucci, often dipped in vin santo. Outside the food context the word simply means a small, thick piece of bread or other solid material.

Examples

"Ci ha servito i tozzetti con il vin santo."

Natural Translation

She served us the tozzetti with vin santo.

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