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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian stracchino.

Noun

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stracchino (uncountable)

  1. A type of Italian cow's-milk cheese, typical of Lombardy
    • 2007 January 21, “The Hungry Stroller”, in New York Times[1]:
      The menu is from Emilia-Romagna, in Northern Italy, with plates of delicate, fragrant gnocco fritto, or yeasty, pillow-shaped fritters, served alongside dabs of stracchino cheese or fans of salume: coppa, mortadella, salami and silky prosciutto di Parma.

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Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /strakˈki.no/
  • Rhymes: -ino
  • Hyphenation: strac‧chì‧no

Noun

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stracchino m (plural stracchini)

  1. a soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with no rind, produced in Lombardy

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