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Definition of Tortoni
1. Noun. Any of several sorts of ice-cream flavoured with rum or sherry and topped with almonds etc. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tortoni
1. a type of ice cream [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tortoni
Literary usage of Tortoni
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Reminiscences and Recollections of Captain Gronow: Being Anecdotes of by Rees Howell Gronow, Joseph Grego (1892)
"THE CAF£ tortoni.—About the commencement of the present century, tortoni, the
centre of pleasure, gallantry, and entertainment, was opened by a Neapolitan, ..."
2. Captain Gronow's Last Recollections: Being the Fourth and Final Series of by Rees Howell Gronow (1866)
"About the commencement of the present century, tortoni, the centre of pleasure,
gallantry, and entertainment, was opened by a Neapolitan, who came to Paris ..."
3. Captain Gronow's Last Recollections: Being the Fourth and Final Series of by Rees Howell Gronow (1866)
"About the commencement of the present century, tortoni, the centre of pleasure,
gallantry, and entertainment, was opened by a Neapolitan, who came to Paris ..."
4. The American in Paris: During the Summer by Jules Gabriel Janin (1844)
"THE CAFE DE tortoni. IT is granted, then, that the Parisian takes but little ...
It is the Café tortoni. The Café tortoni is known throughout Europe. ..."
5. Memoirs of My Dead Life by George Moore (1920)
"I had gone to tortoni, a once celebrated cafe at the corner of the Rue Taitbout,
... Even in my time tortoni was the rendezvous of the world of art and ..."
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