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calzone

calzone

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A folded pizza dough pocket filled with cheese and other toppings and baked
  • noun
  • /kælˈzoʊni/
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  • At the Italian restaurant, I enjoyed a crispy calzone stuffed with mozzarella and mushrooms.
  • baked calzone
  • spinach calzone
  • chicken calzone

Next up, Simon McKellar asks, does a calzone count as a pizza?

Examples

  • After snouting around in the fridge for a bit, I settled on pepperoni, spinach, and olives for my calzone ingredients.

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  • On a related note, green olives in a calzone are freaking amazing.

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  • Do you need help with the calzone?

    Green Book (2018)

  • And you make pretty good calzone.

    Bad Moms (2016)

  • And this one actually looked like a real calzone, which was delightful.

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  • You ever tried cooking calzone in a microwave?

    Innocent Blood (1992)

  • Look, I got a couple calzones left.

    The Lords of Salem (2013)

  • After a little cross section, we have our calzones fresh out the oven.

  • The best thing about a mutant calzone is that it still tastes like a calzone.

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  • Best calzone ever!

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Surface Forms

calzone singular
calzones plural

Etymology

Calzone comes from the Italian word calza 'stocking' or 'trouser'. A helpful way to remember it is to imagine a folded dough like a filled 'sock', so a calzone is a folded, stuffed pizza.