Definitions for tortoni

tortoni tor·to·ni

Spelling: [tawr-toh-nee]
IPA: /tɔrˈtoʊ ni/

Tortoni is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 99 anagrams from letters in tortoni (inoortt).

Definitions for tortoni

noun

  1. ice cream made with eggs and heavy cream, often containing chopped cherries or topped with minced almonds or crumbled macaroons.
  2. biscuit tortoni.

Origin of tortoni

First recorded in 1940-45; said to be after an Italian café owner in Paris in the 18th century

Examples for tortoni

tortoni's, the last survivor of whose founders died only the other day, has its historical reminiscences.

Does tortoni ever give his customers a repast they enjoy more?

The sumptuous cafs tortoni founded in 1798 and de Paris opened 1822 have long since passed away.

In the afternoon I was sitting at tortoni's, when a gentleman of about thirty-five came up to me.

The Caf Procope was to men of intellect what some few years later tortoni's was to men of fashion.

At tortoni's and the Café Anglais, not a glimmer is visible.

(You can get them that way at tortoni's)—Write, if you please!

It was at tortoni's that he had made the acquaintance of Dubourg.

Young Veloni brought with him his friend tortoni, an industrious and intelligent man.

At precisely twelve o'clock I was at tortoni's, and found my broker already expecting me.

Word Value for tortoni
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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