The bakery calls it "pistolone." It's a large, oval-shaped, very crusty white bread that may or may not be topped with a sprinkling of sesame seeds (your choice. with seeds is better). The name has never made sense to me, though. Pistola + -one = "big gun", but IIRC an augmentative/diminutive suffix can make it an entirely different word, and not simply indicate a smaller/larger version of the stem word. Any clue how this name could be descriptive of the bread?
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"pistolone" bread?
The bakery calls it "pistolone." It's a large, oval-shaped, very crusty white bread that may or may not be topped with a sprinkling of sesame seeds (your choice. with seeds is better). The name has never made sense to me, though. Pistola + -one = "big gun", but IIRC an augmentative/diminutive suffix can make it an entirely different word, and not simply indicate a smaller/larger version of the stem word. Any clue how this name could be descriptive of the bread?
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