cacciatore

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

adjective

, Italian Cooking.

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

   chicken cacciatore.

cacciatore

/ ˌkætʃ-; ˌkɑːtʃəˈtɔːrɪ /

adjective

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

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of cacciatore¹

Italian, literally: hunter

Example Sentences

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

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This is the old Cacciatore seismometer which has been long employed in Italy.

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

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