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osteria

osteria noun: a small local restaurant in (usually rural) Italy.

Noun

osteria (plural osterias or osterie)

  1. A small local restaurant in (usually rural) Italy.
    • 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...2015 August 13, Robert Draper, “In Italy, Hiking and Haute Cuisine in the Dolomites”, in New York Times

Forms of osteria

pluralosterias
pluralosterie

Origin of osteria

Borrowed from Italian osteria. Doublet of hostry.

Questions about osteria

What does osteria mean?
Osteria means a small local restaurant in (usually rural) Italy.
What part of speech is osteria?
Osteria is a noun.
What is the plural of osteria?
The plural of osteria is osterias.

Words near osteria in the dictionary

  1. osteotropism
  2. osteozecathia
  3. Oster
  4. Ostergaard
  5. Ostergaards
  6. osteria
  7. osterias
  8. osterie
  9. osterix
  10. Osterkamp
  11. Osterkamps

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