Definition of "puttanesca" []

• A cooking sauce made from tomato flavoured with garlic, anchovies, capers and olives. (noun)

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• "And yes, I have used fish sauce in puttanesca when I had no anchovies around."
• "The name gives puttanesca a residual taste of sex—this, it says, is a sauce for working women."
• "On that first visit I bought tomatoes and oily black olives imported from Turkey, and that night, instead of eating downstairs in the restaurant, Mohamad and I dined on pasta puttanesca."