battuto

[buh-too-toh]

noun

Italian Cooking.

plural

battutos 

1. soffritto.

battuto

/ bəˈtuːtəʊ /

noun

1. a selection of chopped herbs, used in Italian cookery

Word History and Origins

Origin of battuto¹

< Italian; masculine of battuta

Word History and Origins

Origin of battuto¹

Italian, past participle of battere to beat

Example Sentences

Traditionally, onion and garlic are never present in the same battuto.

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He was very often dreadfully beaten--as the artist tells it himself, bene spesso stranamente battuto--for wandering in the workshops of artists instead of going to school, or sketching for himself instead of studying his books.

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No doubt the venerable Christian sanctuary there has been frequently repaired and modified; on the terrace-level to the south can be seen the foundations of an earlier chapel, and the slopes are littered with broken bricks, Sorrentine tufa, and old battuto floors.

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