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osteria

osteria

English

Noun

osteria (plural osterias or osterie)

  1. A small local restaurant in Italy.
    • 2015 August 13, Robert Draper, “In Italy, Hiking and Haute Cuisine in the Dolomites”, in New York Times:
      And though the standard fare at the mountain osterias known as rifugios largely remains slabs of speck and strong local cheese, there are exceptions — most notably Col Alt, a rifugio above Corvara accessible only by ski lift, where meat dishes take the form of succulent venison or rabbit, and bottles of aged Barolo offer a noble complement to the soaring mountain vistas.

Finnish

Noun

osteria

  1. Partitive singular form of osteri.

Italian

Etymology

oste + -eria

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [osteˈria]

Noun

osteria f (plural osterie)

  1. inn
  2. small restaurant in the country
  3. bistro
  4. tavern

Interjection

osteria

  1. blimey! (Expletive - Often used to replace the mildly blasphemous expletive "ostia" (meaning "Host" or "Communion wafer"))
  2. gee

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