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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.

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Carpaccio ² American  

[kahr-paht-chaw] / kɑrˈpɑt tʃɔ /

noun

1. Vittore c1450–1525, Venetian painter.

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Carpaccio ¹ British  

/ ˌkɑːˈpætʃɪəʊ, karˈpattʃo, -tʃəʊ /

noun

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

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carpaccio ² British  

/ ˌkɑːˈpætʃɪəʊ, karˈpattʃo /

noun

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

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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

But, we have the carpaccio that was originally created at Le Bernardin in 1986 when Le Bernardin opened.

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

Carpaccio the painter has recently been getting more attention outside his native Venice.

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

For an authoritative and detailed account, see the Life and Works of Vittorio Carpaccio, by Pompeo Molmenti and Gustav Ludwig, Eng. trans, by R.H.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various

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