osso buco
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- noun
- /ˈɔːsoʊ ˈbuːkoʊ/
- The chef prepared a delicious osso buco using fresh tomatoes and herbs.
- make osso buco
- like osso buco
Examples
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Stone Barrington finished his osso buco as Elaine wandered over from another table and sat down.
Fiction book (2002) -
For dinner, we enjoyed a tender osso buco served with creamy risotto.
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Anyone for some osso buco?
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Hey, it's the osso buco.
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You like osso buco, Charlie?
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We also have osso buco.
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Do you like osso buco?
Fiction book (1996) -
We made osso buco and pork and gnocchi, all Tony's mother's recipes.
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I FIXED YOU SOME OSSO BUCO.
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She turned up her nose at dishes that used to make her squeal and applaud with delight: deviled eggs, tripe, osso buco.
Fiction book (1997)
How Tender
Surface Forms
Morphology
osso + buco
Osso buco is an Italian loanphrase that literally means 'bone (osso) + hole (buco)'; a learner who knew those constituent words could partly infer it refers to a bony cut of meat with marrow. However, the specific culinary sense (a braised veal shank dish and its typical preparation/serving) depends on cultural/lexical knowledge beyond the literal parts and the constituents are not English words, so the meaning is only partially predictable.
Etymology
The dish name osso buco comes from Italian and literally means 'bone with a hole'. Osso means 'bone' and buco means 'hole', because cooks cut the veal leg across so the round bone and its hole show in the middle, so the name describes the cut of meat and became the dish name.