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piccata

/pɪˈkɑːtə/

piccata adjective: sliced, sautéed and served with lemon, parsley and butter sauce.

Adjective

piccata (not comparable)

  1. Sliced, sautéed and served with lemon, parsley and butter sauce.
    • Rattle-snake piccata with grapes and figs, old Brown Betty with a yellow wig […]1999, Tom Waits, Filipino Box Spring Hog

Noun

piccata (plural piccatas)

  1. A dish of food sliced, sautéed and served with lemon, parsley and butter sauce; or an individual slice of such a dish.
    • Maybe you've been put off by all the syllables that hang around veal. The saltimboccas, parmigianas, piccatas and scaloppines. Well, it's a ruse. In fact, veal is very simple food.1990, Cincinnati Magazine, volume 23, number 5
    • “(grunts) Frankie put glass in the piccata and the restaurant comped us, so we got all these chips. Let's hit the casino.” “All right.” “Come on, Nadia. Let's go watch this Rat Pack show with the girls.” “Did you say "the Rat Pack"?” “Yeah, they're good.” “They're here?” “Yeah, yeah, it's the Rat...2021 September 16, Sarah Naftalis, “The Casino” (6:40 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 3, episode 1, spoken by Sean Rinaldi (Anthony Atamanuik)

piccata meaning in Bengali

piccata in Bengali

স্লাইস করা, সঁতে করা এবং লেবু

Forms of piccata

pluralpiccatas

Origin of piccata

From Italian piccata (“larded”), past participle of piccare (“to prick; to lard”).

Questions about piccata

What does piccata mean?
Piccata means sliced, sautéed and served with lemon, parsley and butter sauce.
What is piccata in Bengali?
Piccata in Bengali is স্লাইস করা, সঁতে করা এবং লেবু. See Piccata meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is piccata?
Piccata can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce piccata?
Piccata is pronounced /pɪˈkɑːtə/.

Words near piccata in the dictionary

  1. piccaninnies
  2. piccaninny
  3. piccanins
  4. Piccard
  5. Piccards
  6. piccata
  7. piccatas
  8. Picciano
  9. Piccianos
  10. piccies
  11. Piccinini

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Adapted from Wiktionary: piccata (page history and authors); piccata (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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