tomato pie
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.69 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
In some Italian-American and Italian-Canadian communities, any of a number of variations of pizza consisting only or largely of dough and tomato sauce.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A savory summer pie from the American South, containing tomatoes topped with grated cheese mixed with mayonnaise or a white sauce.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The "pomidore pizza", or tomato pie, is made in this fashion. Take a lump of dough, and, under a roller, flatten it out until it is only an inch thick. On this scatter tomatoes and season plentifully with powdered red pepper."
- "Once upon a time, almost all pizza — then a word unknown to the general American public outside Italian enclaves — was called tomato pie in the United States. In the 1930s, English-language newspapers featured job listings for tomato pie bakers and advertisements for tomato pie ovens, sometimes including that obscure term "pizza" in parentheses."
- "In Philadelphia, tomato pie is a springy, square flatbread slathered with tomato sauce and comparable to the Sicilian sfincione."