margherita
See also: Margherita
English edit
Noun edit
margherita (plural margheritas)
- Alternative letter-case form of Margherita
- 2015 October 20, Pete Wells, “Restaurant Review: Bruno in the East Village”, in New York Times[1]:
- Their nearest approach to a classic pie is their margherita, with a sauce that incorporates sweet, juicy garlic and some fermented tomatoes.
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Etymology edit
From earlier margarita, from Latin margarīta, from Ancient Greek μαργαρίτης (margarítēs), from a loanword of Eastern origin.
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Noun edit
margherita f (plural margherite)
- (obsolete) pearl
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso, Le Monnier, published 2002, Canto XXII, p. 401, vv. 28-30:
- [...] e la maggiore e la più luculenta ¶ di quelle margherite innanzi fessi, ¶ per far di sé la mia voglia contenta.
- [...] and now the largest and most luculent ¶ among those pearls came forward, that it might ¶ make my desire concerning it content.
- daisy
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margherita c