wedding soup

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An Italian-American soup consisting of green vegetables and meat in a chicken-based broth.

Word forms

wedding soup wedding soups

Etymology

A mistranslated calque of Italian minestra maritata (“married soup”), which refers to the “marriage” of the vegetables and the meat.

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