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cacciatore

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

adjective

, Italian Cooking.
  1. prepared with or containing tomatoes, mushrooms, herbs, and other seasonings:

    chicken cacciatore.



cacciatore

/ ˌkɑːtʃəˈtɔːrɪ; ˌkætʃ- /

adjective

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


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Word History and Origins

Origin of cacciatore1

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

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Word History and Origins

Origin of cacciatore1

Italian, literally: hunter

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Example Sentences

He wrote down several others he found on the bill of fare, such as “cacciatore.”

Luckily I found Dr. Joanne Cacciatore and her organization MISS.

Posting them to YouTube is a new—and unusual—normal, and one that “we may have created ourselves,” Cacciatore says.

“These babies, much loved and wanted, have been historically marginalized,” Cacciatore says.

Il Cacciatore has been in the wineshop since sunrise, in colossal shooting-boots with cartridge-belt round his waist.

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

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.

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