tortoni

[ tawr-toh-nee ]

noun

ice cream made with eggs and heavy cream, often containing chopped cherries or topped with minced almonds or crumbled macaroons.
biscuit tortoni.

Origin of tortoni

First recorded in 1940–45; said to be after an Italian café owner in Paris in the 18th century

Words Nearby tortoni

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How to use tortoni in a sentence

Bastringuette walked away; and the young men separated, promising to meet in front of tortoni's at the same hour the next day.
San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams | Charles Paul de Kock
On the fourth day, Balivan came running into tortoni's just after his friends.
San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams | Charles Paul de Kock
tortoni's is a restaurant and café of the highest class, the most select in the city.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 | Various
“Kayo tortoni” is acknowledged the most famous woman character in sports cartoons.
What's in the New York Evening Journal | New York Evening Journal
There was more "life" to be seen in an English hotel in a minute than one could see in the Hotel tortoni in a month.
On the Fringe of the Great Fight | George G. Nasmith

British Dictionary definitions for tortoni

tortoni

/ (tɔːˈtəʊnɪ) /

noun

a rich ice cream often flavoured with sherry

Origin of tortoni

from Italian: probably from the name of a 19th-century Italian caterer in Paris

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