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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Being or served with a sauce of eggs, minced bacon or ham, grated cheese, and seasonings.
  • noun Carbonara sauce.

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  • noun Spaghetti carbonara

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  • noun sauce for pasta; contains eggs and bacon or ham and grated cheese

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Italian (alla) carbonara, (from) a charcoal grill, from carbone, charcoal, from Latin carbō, carbōn-; see carbon.]

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From the Italian carbonara

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