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Tiramisu

2 stages from Italian to English.

Today it means a layered Italian dessert made with coffee-soaked ladyfingers and mascarpone cheese
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tirami su
Italian · 1970s
"pick me up"
literally pick me up, referring to the espresso and cocoa in the layered dessert
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tiramisu
English · 1982
"a layered coffee-flavored Italian dessert"
adopted directly for the layered coffee-flavored Italian dessert
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