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Gelato

2 stages from Italian to English.

Today it means a dense, creamy Italian-style frozen dessert
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Stage 1 of 2
gelato
Italian · medieval
"frozen"
literally frozen, from gelare (to freeze), Italy's dense style of ice cream
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Stage 2 of 2
gelato
English · 1900s
"a dense Italian-style frozen dessert"
adopted directly for the dense Italian-style frozen dessert
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