cacciatore

[ kah-chuh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee ]

adjectiveItalian Cooking.
  1. prepared with or containing tomatoes, mushrooms, herbs, and other seasonings: chicken cacciatore.

Origin of cacciatore

1
1940–45; short for Italian alla cacciatora in the manner of hunters; cacciatora, feminine derivative of cacciatore hunter, equivalent to cacci(a) caccia + -atore-ator
  • Also cac·cia·to·ra [kah-chuh-tawr-uh, -tohr-uh]. /ˌkɑ tʃəˈtɔr ə, -ˈtoʊr ə/.

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How to use cacciatore in a sentence

  • The day has been a hot one, Il cacciatore has fired some hundred shots in different directions.

    Vagaries | Axel Munthe
  • This is the old cacciatore seismometer which has been long employed in Italy.

  • About ten o'clock appear Il cacciatore's two dogs, mother and son.

    Vagaries | Axel Munthe

British Dictionary definitions for cacciatore

cacciatore

cacciatora

/ (ˌkɑːtʃəˈtɔːrɪ, ˌkætʃ-) /


adjective
  1. (immediately postpositive) prepared with tomatoes, mushrooms, herbs, and other seasonings

Origin of cacciatore

1
Italian, literally: hunter

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