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Calzone

2 stages from Italian to English.

Today it means a folded Italian pastry made from pizza dough and filled with cheese and other ingredients
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Stage 1 of 2
calzone
Italian · 1800s
"a trouser leg, a stocking"
literally a trouser leg or stocking, describing the folded pastry's shape
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Stage 2 of 2
calzone
English · 1930s
"a folded, baked pizza dough filled with cheese and other ingredients"
adopted directly for the folded, stuffed pizza dough dish
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