0 a dish originally from Italy consisting of very thin slices of raw (= not cooked) meat, usually beef (= meat from a cow), or fish:
The carpaccio is cut to order from a whole-muscle filet mignon.
After washing down ravioli, carpaccio and grilled asparagus with a bottle of Montepulciano, all seemed right with the world.
The food is very good: grilled octopus, carpaccio, light homemade pasta.
Two of us went for the carpaccio of scallops with fresh crab meat, black olive oil and pea shoots.
