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Definition of calzone
calzone
orcalzones
: a baked or fried turnover of pizza dough stuffed with various fillings usually including cheese
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Lucali was founded by Mark Iacono in 2006 and serves neighborhood favorites: calzones, pizzas, and meatballs served with a sauce that takes four hours to cook.
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Its original location is still serving up pizza, calzones and sandwiches.
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This Longwood eatery offers a hefty menu filled with everything from burritos to calzones for breakfast and lunch.
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Raucous happy-hour venue to wind down from Friday with a few beers and a calzone?
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Sanpeggio's offers several specialty pizzas, as well as salads, calzones, subs, and pastas.
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Hungry Howie’s is known for its flavored-crust pizza, and also offers calzone-style submarine sandwiches and salads.
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These pies are essentially large calzones that get folded and not crimped around the edges.
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Clifton’s also prides themselves in their huge calzones that are stuffed with cheese, sauce, and your choice of six toppings.
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Origin and Etymology of calzone
Italian, from calzone (singular of calzoni pants), augmentative of calza stocking, from Medieval Latin calcea, from Latin calceus shoe, from calc-, calx heel
CALZONE Defined for English Language Learners
calzone
playDefinition of calzone for English Language Learners
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: a food originally from Italy that consists of baked or fried dough folded over and filled with tomato sauce, cheese, etc.
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