trattoria
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trattorias,
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trattorie
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noun
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Etymology
Origin of trattoria
1825–35; < Italian: public eating place, restaurant, equivalent to trattor ( e ) restaurateur ( tratt ( are ) to treat + -ore -or 2, as translation of French traiteur ) + -ia -ia
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I wanted a cake that felt like eating fruit in the sun, like something you’d be served on the ivy-covered patio of a neighborhood trattoria, the air thick with early summer heat.
From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2025
At the Roman trattoria Da Felice, wine-and-sun drenched diners ordered pasta with fava beans, peas and guanciale as Cesare Murtas, a manager who is from Sardinia, looked on beside the front door’s beware-of-fava-beans sign.
From New York Times ● May 13, 2023
Added Vincenzo Masiello, who runs the ‘O Vesuvio trattoria and pizzeria in the Quartieri Spagnoli: “People are coming from all over the world to witness our joy, for something that we still can’t believe.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 2023
Three years later, Suzan and Keith were at a tiny trattoria in Florence, where they were celebrating their honeymoon.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 5, 2022
We decided on the “Pescatore,” a little out-of-the-way trattoria, down near the Molo Vecchio.
From Mugby Junction by Charles Dickens
Daniel Holzman, who co-founded a minichain of casual trattorias called The Meatball Shop in New York in 2010, put it bluntly: “The economics of a traditional restaurant don’t work anymore.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025
But most likely, this anonymous culinary magician was an actual Italian, the affogato emerging from the heady world of the great boot’s dark roasted trattorias and cafes.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2022
With tourism now largely limited to Italians and some other Europeans during the pandemic, many cafes and trattorias risk going out of business.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 8, 2020
From the downtown trattorias to the crab shacks by the shore, She pans the dining-out spots, gives ’em all a one-star score.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 5, 2018
He wanted to take her to dine at one of the trattorias on the road to Posilipo where they could see spread at their feet the entire gulf, colored with rose by the setting sun.
From Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel by Charlotte Brewster Jordan
Indeed, residents in Rome are now challenging the opening of a 6,000-square-foot McDonald’s just outside St. Peter’s Square on the grounds that it violates local rules aimed at protecting Rome’s mom-and-pop trattorie and restaurants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2016
There remains a factor that the oddsmakers in the betting parlors of London and the Vaticanologists in the trattorie of Rome cannot predict.
From Time Magazine Archive
There are trattorie and cafés at the hospice, where refreshments may be obtained both good and cheap.
From Selections from Previous Works and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals by Samuel Butler
There are trattorie and cafes at the hospice, where refreshments may be obtained both good and cheap.
From Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino by Samuel Butler
At the doors of the trattorie the people, who had forsaken their snails, stood to gaze, many of them holding glasses of white wine in their hands.
From A Spirit in Prison by Robert Smythe Hichens
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