pizza pie

pizza pie
noun
Italian open pie made of thin bread dough spread with a spiced mixture of e.g. tomato sauce and cheese
Syn: ↑pizza
Hypernyms: ↑dish

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noun
see pizza

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piz|za «PEET suh; Italian PEET tsah», noun, or pizza pie,
a spicy Italian dish made by baking a large flat cake of bread dough covered with cheese, tomato sauce, herbs, and often with anchovies, bits of sausage, or the like.
[< Italian pizza, perhaps < pesta (thing) pounded, ultimately < Latin pista, feminine past participle of pīnsere to pound2, beat]

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