trattoria
noun
a usually inexpensive or informal restaurant or cafe specializing in Italian dishes.
trattorie
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pluralof trattoria.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Indeed, residents in Rome are now challenging the opening of a 6,000-square-foot McDonald’s just outside St. Peter’s Square on the grounds that it violates local rules aimed at protecting Rome’s mom-and-pop trattorie and restaurants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2016
There remains a factor that the oddsmakers in the betting parlors of London and the Vaticanologists in the trattorie of Rome cannot predict.
From Time Magazine Archive
There are trattorie and cafes at the hospice, where refreshments may be obtained both good and cheap.
From Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino by Samuel Butler
At the doors of the trattorie the people, who had forsaken their snails, stood to gaze, many of them holding glasses of white wine in their hands.
From A Spirit in Prison by Robert Smythe Hichens
Siena was feasting, and the waiters furtively swept their foreheads with their coat-sleeves as they ran in and out of the trattorie.
From Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett by Maurice Henry Hewlett
