tutti-frutti

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English[edit]

tutti frutti ice-cream

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Etymology[edit]

From Sicilian tutti frutti (all fruits), so attested in 1838 for a kind of sorbet.[1]

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Noun[edit]

tutti-frutti (uncountable)

  1. A variety of ice cream (or, formerly, other confection) that contains chopped candied fruit.
  2. (India) Candied raw papaya (unripened papaya).

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References[edit]

  1. ^ V. Mortillaro: Nuovo dizionario siciliano-italiano, vol. I, Palermo, 1838, p. 450.

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