Calzone

/kælˈzoʊn/ noun

An Italian pastry that looks like a folded pizza, with cheese and other fillings sealed inside a pocket of dough and baked.

From Italian calzone, possibly from Italian dialect word for 'trousers' because the shape resembles pants legs when folded. The food became popular in Naples in the 1950s.

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