piccata
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of piccata
< Italian: a slice of veal cooked in this manner < French piqué, past participle of piquer to lard (meat), attach (ingredients) by pricking or puncturing, literally, to prick; see pique 1, -ate 1
Example Sentences
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The chicken piccata is great, and the people who own it are just wonderful people and so welcoming.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2025
The evening was a seven-course affair that included velvety butternut squash soup with lion’s mane mushrooms, pumpkin risotto with braised chicken and halibut piccata with sorrel and delicata squash.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 11, 2023
This chicken piccata is among the dishes our reporters and editors cooked the most this year.
From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2022
What Americans today think of as piccata, with a creamy pan sauce, bright with lemon and pungent with capers, is more of an Italian-American riff on that pounded Italian cutlet.
From Washington Post ● May 12, 2022
My father makes chicken piccata, which means the kitchen is a mess.
From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven
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