cioppino

noun

ciop·​pi·​no chə-ˈpē-(ˌ)nō How to pronounce cioppino (audio)
: a stew of fish and shellfish cooked usually with tomatoes, wine, spices, and herbs

Examples of cioppino in a Sentence

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But the classic Italian American dishes prepared by chef Chris Prince are reminders of why standards such as spaghetti and meatballs, pasta fagioli and cioppino are so beloved in the first place. Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 13 Aug. 2024 Couples can treat themselves with everything from blushing seafood cioppino to chargrilled filet topped with blue cheese. Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 30 Jan. 2024 Mussel toast—a thick wedge of bread spread with aioli and piled high with shelled molluscs and doused in a tomato-tinged sauce—is effectively a bowl of cioppino (there’s the Bay Area, again) minus the broth. Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2023 Other standouts are the curry mussels with enoki mushrooms and condensed coconut milk broth and the cioppino linguine with housemade pasta and seafood in a delicate saffron broth. Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2023 See all Example Sentences for cioppino 

Word History

Etymology

modification of Italian dialect (Liguria) ciuppin

First Known Use

1908, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of cioppino was in 1908

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“Cioppino.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cioppino. Accessed 19 Nov. 2024.

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