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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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Upon introducing myself, Hipólito Raposo sat me down and ordered me tomato carpaccio, fish soup and a glass of house wine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 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

The carpaccio was very popular in the '80s.

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 was a painter, a famous painter during the Renaissance.

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

In the hall the Carpaccio copies still glowed, but there were dust sheets over most of the furniture and a plumber was moving his things out with that eleventh hour reluctance so characteristic of plumbers.

From The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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