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tortonis

tortonis is the plural of tortoni.

Meaning of tortoni

Noun

tortoni (countable and uncountable, plural tortoni or tortonis)

  1. Any of several sorts of ice-cream flavoured with rum or sherry, often containing chopped cherries and topped with almonds, crumbled macaroons, etc.
    • Nevertheless, the municipal band still played three evenings a week to great crowds on the Punta and in Central Park, the theatres were full of gayety, and the most zealous revellers continued to eat tortonis and sip ices every evening in the pretty cafés that are half outdoors and almost on the...1906 October 20, William Inglis, “The Collapse of the Cuban House of Cards”, in Harper’s Weekly: A Journal of Civilization, volume 1, number 2600, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC

Questions about tortonis

What is tortonis the plural of?
Tortonis is the plural of tortoni.

Words near tortonis in the dictionary

  1. Tortolans
  2. Tortolian
  3. Tortolians
  4. tortoni
  5. Tortonian
  6. tortonis
  7. Tortora
  8. Tortoras
  9. Tortorellas
  10. Tortorelli
  11. Tortorellis

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