Alfredo Definition

ăl-frādō, äl-

adjective

Being or served with a sauce containing cream, Parmesan cheese, and butter.

Fettuccine Alfredo.

American Heritage

Coated with a mixture of butter, cream, and grated Parmesan cheese, or now, often, with a white cheese sauce somewhat like this.

Fettuccine Alfredo.

Webster's New World

noun

(cooking) Alternative spelling of Alfredo.

Wiktionary

Origin of Alfredo

After Alfredo di Lelio (died 1959), Italian chef, whose restaurant in Rome became famous in the 1920s for fettuccine served with such a sauce

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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