olive ciabatta

English translation: ciabatta bread baked with olives

10:50 Dec 8, 2003

English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO]

English term or phrase: olive ciabatta

He swirled his olive ciabatta around in a light green dish of oil.

vkan

Selected answer:ciabatta bread baked with olives

Explanation:
an Italian type of bread (see below)

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Steffen Walter
Germany
Local time: 14:22

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4 +4

ciabatta bread baked with olives

Steffen Walter

5 +1

bread

Sergio Santoro (X)

olive ciabatta +

Laurel Porter (X)

olive ciabatta

davidgreen

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2 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +4

ciabatta bread baked with olives

Steffen Walter
Germany
Local time: 14:22
Native speaker of:

German
PRO pts in pair: 91

5 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

bread

Explanation:
ciabatta is a kind of flat brad that resembles a slipper or a shoe anyway. It's a good one for making bruschetta or dipping in oil, like in this case. Olive ciabatta must be a variety with olives (although it's not traditional :))
BUT AGAIN, SOME MORE CONTEXT WOULDN'T HARM
sorry for the caps, I didn't mean them. That's what ciabatta may be with this little context

Sergio Santoro (X)
Native speaker of:

Italian
PRO pts in pair: 4

10 mins confidence:

olive ciabatta

Explanation:
I would leave it as is. or maybe "he swirled his slice/piece of olive ciabatta around in a light green dish of [olive] oil."

davidgreen
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in pair: 4

7 hrs confidence:

olive ciabatta +

Explanation:
You don't say whether this text has been translated, but I suspect it should be "a dish of light-green oil" rather than a light-green dish of some unspecified color of oil. Better yet, "a dish of pale/light green olive oil"

Laurel Porter (X)
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in pair: 36

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