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  • carpaccio
    carpaccio
    noun
    an appetizer of thinly sliced raw beef served with a vinaigrette or other piquant sauce.
  • Carpaccio
    Carpaccio
    noun
    Vittore c1450–1525, Venetian painter.

carpaccio

1 American  
[kahr-pah-choh, -chee-oh] / kɑrˈpɑ tʃoʊ, -tʃiˌoʊ /

noun

  1. an appetizer of thinly sliced raw beef served with a vinaigrette or other piquant sauce.


Carpaccio 2 American  
[kahr-paht-chaw] / kɑrˈpɑt tʃɔ /

noun

  1. Vittore c1450–1525, Venetian painter.


Carpaccio 1 British  
/ ˌkɑːˈpætʃɪəʊ, karˈpattʃo, -tʃəʊ /

noun

  1. Vittore (vitˈtoːre). ?1460–?1525, Italian painter of the Venetian school

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

carpaccio 2 British  
/ ˌkɑːˈpætʃɪəʊ, karˈpattʃo /

noun

  1. an Italian dish of thin slices of raw meat or fish

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of carpaccio

After V. Carpaccio; said to have been introduced under this name c1961 at Harry's Bar, a Venetian restaurant


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What does scare them: admitting they have a problem when the waiter brings beet carpaccio after they swear they read beef.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

The starter is a nod to McIlroy's favourite New York restaurant, Le Bernardin, where the 36-year-old always orders yellowfin tuna carpaccio.

From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026

The elevated snack tray comes with crudités alongside a pesto yogurt sauce, a tuna tostada, a carpaccio hand roll, shrimp toast and a refreshing, fruity and herbaceous granita that comes in a hollowed-out tangerine rind.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2024

She leans on what she knows and plays up those flavors: the koji-marinated tomato in the oyster dish, the acid from the oranges in the butternut squash carpaccio.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2023

Seafood carpaccio didn't exist at that time, and I think Cipriani in Venice created the beef carpaccio during the Carpaccio exhibit, I don't remember which year, but it was way before.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2023

Carpaccio was a painter, a famous painter during the Renaissance.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2023

Seafood carpaccio didn't exist at that time, and I think Cipriani in Venice created the beef carpaccio during the Carpaccio exhibit, I don't remember which year, but it was way before.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2023

Few people know that the dish is named for a lesser-known Venetian, the Renaissance painter Vittore Carpaccio, because of the intense red hues he favored.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 15, 2023

The Washington exhibit includes two Carpaccio paintings which, after a restoration, left Venice for the first time in more than 500 years.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 15, 2023

In the year 1869, just before leaving Venice, I had been carefully looking at a picture by Victor Carpaccio, representing the dream of a young princess.

From Saint Ursula Story of Ursula and Dream of Ursula by John Ruskin

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