Italian variant of brocatelle; a decorative fabric or marble with raised design patterns.
The original Italian form of the word, a diminutive of 'brocato' (brocade). It represents the earliest spelling in the source language before English adopted and modified the term.
This is the Italian original that 'brocatelle' is based on—it's fun to see how languages imported the word and slightly changed the spelling. Italian's diminutive '-ello' ending became French '-elle,' then English '-elle,' each time sounding a bit different.
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