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Panettone

3 stages from Italian to English.

Today it means a sweet Italian bread traditionally eaten at Christmas, studded with candied fruit
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panetto
Italian · medieval
"a small loaf of bread"
a small loaf of bread, a diminutive of pane (bread)
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panettone
Italian · 1800s
"a sweet holiday bread"
settled as the name for the sweet, dome-shaped holiday bread of Milan
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panettone
English · 1900s
"a sweet Italian holiday bread with candied fruit"
adopted directly as Italian holiday traditions spread internationally
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