piz·za·io·la
ˌpēt-sə-ˈyō-lə 
plural pizzaiolas or pizzaiole
ˌpēt-sə-ˈyō-(ˌ)lā
1
: a pizza maker : pizzaiolo
I've made hundreds of oven-baked pizzas and consider myself a pretty skilled pizzaiola, but my first attempt at grilled pizza was a nightmare.—
Matthew Card
Matthew Card
specifically
: a female pizza maker
Sophia Loren, who portrayed a pizzaiola selling fried pizza in the 1954 film classic The Gold of Naples … —Daniel Young
Daniel Young 2
: a tomato sauce incorporating olive oil, garlic, and oregano that is typically paired with meat or pasta
… ricotta and spinach dumpling with pizzaiola.—The (London) Evening Standard
The (London) Evening Standard
: prepared with a pizzaiola tomato sauce (see pizzaiola entry 1 sense 2)
—used postpositively
Cooking up an Italian veal pizzaiola with baked potatoes …—Annita Katee
Annita KateeDishes include tuna croquette with puttanesca sauce, spaghetti and clams, polenta with scallops and citrus and monkfish pizzaiola.—Leeanne Griffin
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Noun
To demonstrate, Sarah, like a pizzaiola tossing a pie, flips a large sheet of spinach dough onto the clunky old contraption.
—New York Times, 10 Feb. 2022
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“Pizzaiola.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pizzaiola. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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