trattoria

[ trah-tuh-ree-uh ]

noun
  1. a usually inexpensive or informal restaurant or cafe specializing in Italian dishes.

Origin of trattoria

1
1825–35; <Italian: public eating place, restaurant, equivalent to trattor(e) restaurateur (tratt(are) to treat + -ore-or2, as translation of French traiteur) + -ia-ia

Words Nearby trattoria

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How to use trattoria in a sentence

  • It was that of a very modest restaurant decorated with this signboard: 'trattoria al Marzocco.'

    Cosmopolis, Complete | Paul Bourget

British Dictionary definitions for trattoria

trattoria

/ (ˌtrætəˈrɪə) /


noun
  1. an Italian restaurant

Origin of trattoria

1
C19: from Italian, from trattore innkeeper, from French traiteur, from Old French tretier to treat

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