pancetta

[ pan-chet-uh ]
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noun
  1. Italian pork belly cured with salt, pepper, and other spices and air-dried up to four months, tightly rolled in a cylinder.

Origin of pancetta

1
First recorded in 1950–55; from Italian: literally, “little belly,” diminutive of pancia “belly, paunch,” from Latin pantic- (stem of pantex ) “belly, paunch, guts” + -etta diminutive suffix (cf. -ette)

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British Dictionary definitions for pancetta

pancetta

/ (pænˈtʃɛtə, Italian panˈtʃetta) /


noun
  1. a lightly spiced cured bacon from Italy

Origin of pancetta

1
Italian, literally: little belly

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