piccata

noun

pic·​ca·​ta

pə̇ˈkätə,

-ätə

plural piccatas

: thin slices of meat (such as veal) that are dredged in flour, sautéed, and served in a lemon and butter sauce

Examples of piccata in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Think: chicken piccata and grain-free peach cobbler. —Karla Walsh, Bon Appetit Magazine, 16 June 2025

Cesarina will take over The Pearl Hotel’s restaurant and serve a five-course dinner that includes a Caesar salad, timpano, chicken piccata, sgroppino and an ice cream sandwich. —Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2025

Crowd pleasers included crispy sushi rice, tuna tartare, spicy lobster pasta, and veal piccata, while all eyes were continually on a dark-horse star of the show that wasn’t even listed on the menu: a large dinner plate-size helping of something mysterious and fluffy. —Freya Drohan, Vogue, 27 Mar. 2025

The eggplant or chicken Parmigiana, chicken piccata and chicken Marsala platters all cost less than $20. —Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Mar. 2025

Word History

Etymology

Italian, slice of sautéed veal flavored with lemon and parsley, from piccata, feminine of piccato, past participle of piccare to lard (meat), probably from French piquer, literally, to prick

First Known Use

1949, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for piccata

• agata
• bharata
• cantata
• costata
• ephrata
• errata
• falcata
• mahratta
• regatta
• serrata
• sonata
• stigmata