Definitions
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- noun A type of
Italian chicory .
Etymologies
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Italian, small pointed thing.
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Examples
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I started with local sardines now you know the true reason I like this place that had been lightly cured ceviche-style and were served with a salad of bitter curly-leafed puntarella and radishes.
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There's fresh puntarella these days, trimmed and lolling in buckets of water to be scooped out and dressed with anchovies and oil for a salad that is the perfect foil to the stewed offal and fried foods that old Rome knows and prepares well.
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