ciabatta
/tʃəˈbɑːtə
/noun [mass noun]
A flattish, open-textured Italian bread with a floury crust, made with olive oil: wonderful Italian breads including ciabatta [count noun]: all manner of olive breads and ciabattas...
- While most are familiar with focaccia, the Italian flatbread, ciabatta was all new to me.
- Start off with some good bread - ciabatta if possible.
- Every culture has a different way of baking - we have the Italians to thank for ciabatta.
Origin
Italian, literally 'slipper' (from its shape).
Rhymes
- finalist
- finalistic
- finality
- finalization
- finalize
- finally
- final notice
- final salary pension scheme
- final salary scheme
- final solution
- finance
- finance bill
- finance company
- finance director
- finance house
- financial
- financial adviser
- financial analyst
- financial backer
- financial intermediary
- financialization
- financially
- financial modeling
- financial modeller
- financial modelling