Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An Italian ice cream made with heavy cream and often containing rum, almonds, and maraschino cherries, typically served in small cups.
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- noun Any of several sorts of
ice-cream flavoured withrum orsherry and topped withalmonds etc.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A maiden aunt who's allergic to nuts keels over after two bites of the tortoni.
Nuptial Indemnity Con Chapman 2011
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Some things I ate or tasted included a salad with roasted pears (wow), romaine, arugula, toasted pine nuts, stilton and some other gorgeous cheese (creamy, English, not cheddar), and an incredible and mysterious dressing ... tortoni with a "lobster" sauce and huge chuncks of perfectly cooked lobster and giant, tender scallops, a spicy linguini thing ... my stomach is starting to hurt.
Toast: Lindy 2006
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Some things I ate or tasted included a salad with roasted pears (wow), romaine, arugula, toasted pine nuts, stilton and some other gorgeous cheese (creamy, English, not cheddar), and an incredible and mysterious dressing ... tortoni with a "lobster" sauce and huge chuncks of perfectly cooked lobster and giant, tender scallops, a spicy linguini thing ... my stomach is starting to hurt.
Davio's Lindy 2006
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Some things I ate or tasted included a salad with roasted pears (wow), romaine,arugula, toasted pine nuts, stilton and some other gorgeous cheese (creamy, English, not cheddar), and an incredible and mysterious dressing... tortoni with a "lobster" sauce and huge chuncks of perfectly cooked lobster and giant, tender scallops, a spicy linguini thing... my stomach is starting to hurt.
Around Pittsburgh Lindy 2008
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Some things I ate or tasted included a salad with roasted pears (wow), romaine,arugula, toasted pine nuts, stilton and some other gorgeous cheese (creamy, English, not cheddar), and an incredible and mysterious dressing... tortoni with a "lobster" sauce and huge chuncks of perfectly cooked lobster and giant, tender scallops, a spicy linguini thing... my stomach is starting to hurt.
Food Out Lindy 2008
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I made pecan pie and a frozen chocolate amaretto tortoni torte that won at a local gourmet competition here.
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Afterward I had a small portion of tortoni, which never turns out to be as interesting a dessert as one would hope, and with it I drank four tiny cups of inky espresso in quick succession, each flavored with just a drop of anisette.
The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza Block, Lawrence 1980
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-- Something entirely different in the nature of a frozen dessert can be had by preparing biscuit tortoni.
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Do people really have a problem distinguishing tortoni from spumoni?
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And, too -- and note this well -- not the Berlin of the rouged menu and silk-stockinged _kellner_, not the trumped-up Berlin of the vaselined vassal, of the bowing _oberkellner_, not the Berlin of the affected canteloupe (3,50 m.) and the affected biscuit tortoni (2,40
Europe After 8:15 George Jean Nathan 1920
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