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Terms in Italian 8131-8140 of 10470

picchiettare

/peek-kyeht-TAH-reh/
[Italian]

"To dot. To speckle". What the French calle "clouter". To make slits in the skin of meat and insert garlic, rosemary or spices.

picchi-pacchiu

[Italian]

Many Sicilian tomato sauces containing chillis and grated cheese are given this name.

piccioncello

[Italian] plural piccioncello

Young doves or squab, usually bred for the table rather than taken wild. Squab are usually less than seven months old.

piccioncino

/pee-chyohn-CHEE-noh/
[Italian] plural piccioncini

Young doves or squab, usually bred for the table rather than taken wild. Squab are usually less than seven months old.

piccione

[Italian]

A name in Emilia-Romagna for the muscle between the rump and the loin of beef, around the waist of the animal.

piccione

/pee-CHYOH-neh/
[Italian]

Pigeon. Young doves or squab, usually bred for the table rather than taken wild. Squab are usually less than seven months old.

piccione alla spoletina

[Italian]

Squab roasted with black olives.

piccione ripieno

/pee-CHYOH-neh ree-PYEH-noh/
[Italian] plural piccioni ripieni

Squab stuffed with chestnut butter purée and baked.

piccione selvatica

/pee-CHYOH-neh sehl-VAH-tee-kah/
[Italian]

Rock pigeon. Rock pigeons breed in caves on steep cliffs, mainly on the coast but sometimes in the mountains. The city pigeons which are so ubiquitous are escapees which were originally kept in pigeon houses for meat, but then bred so successfully that they are now a pest.

picco/picca

[Italian] plural picchi/picche

Little. Small.