Sicilian pizza
- noun
- /sɪˈsɪliən ˈpiːtsə/
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pizza siciliana
- I prefer Sicilian pizza for its thick crust and ample tomato sauce compared to other pizza styles.
Examples
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I have a kid who likes Sicilian pizza.
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One minute she was a seventeen-year-old senior in high school waiting for a Sicilian pizza to go, and the next she was someone whose whole world had exploded, leaving her adrift in the Milky Way, so far out she was walking on stars.
Fiction book (1997) -
Bostone Pizza is a place that has featured both Neapolitan and Sicilian pizza, and their original location had been mentioned on our sister site (Boston's Hidden Restaurants) as an under-the-radar spot for pizza.
Blog text (22) -
At the dinner party, everyone enjoyed slices of Sicilian pizza topped with fresh vegetables and herbs.
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When we visited the restaurant, I ordered a large Sicilian pizza to share with my friends.
Synonyms
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1.0
A round flat bread with tomato sauce and cheese, often with meat or vegetable toppings
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A round flat dough that has tomato sauce and cheese on top
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is compositional: 'Sicilian' means 'from Sicily' and 'pizza' is the food, so a learner can infer it refers to a pizza style associated with Sicily (i.e., a regional variety, typically thick and rectangular). This pattern—using a place adjective to mark a regional dish—is common cross-linguistically and follows standard noun phrase composition, making the meaning transparent to a B1 learner who knows the parts.
Etymology
Sicilian pizza may come from the island of Sicily, where bakers made a thick, bread-like pizza in square metal pans. Imagine a big rectangle of dough with sauce and cheese on top; that's why Sicilian pizza today means 'a pizza with a thick, rectangular crust baked in a pan'.