peccavi

If I had never done anything worse than that I shouldn't feel myself called to go upon my knees and cry /peccavi/.

Peccavi means "I have sinned."

Napier to his superiors on taking Sind province, of which he disapproved: "Peccavi".

Last week the owners changed the name of the cafe to Peccavi, added calorie counts to a new low-fat, low-cholesterol menu, and adopted a total no-smoking rule.

The mass walkout occurred Monday afternoon, forcing a shutdown of the restaurant as well as its adjacent cafe, called Peccavi, according to Paul Gregory, the owner.

Joseph Savino, the chef of Peccavi, on East 26th Street, takes his cue from dishes like those and uses mint in an artichoke and tomato ragout served with halibut.

Napier was supposed to have despatched to his superiors the short, notable message, "Peccavi", the Latin for "I have sinned" (which was a pun on I have Sindh).

Laura Frankel at Shallots New York and Joseph Savino at Peccavi, though their restaurants are not North African, prepare tagines in the style of Morocco and Algeria.

General Napier was famously supposed to have reported his conquest of the province to his superiors with the one-word message 'peccavi', a pun relying on the Latin word meaning, "I have sinned."

Much of its appeal - and that of a similarly Hopperesque slice of life involving a pregnant woman, titled "In the Infield Was Patty Peccavi" - lies in the figure's greater degree of humanity.

New Yorkers who live near Peccavi, an Italian Mediterranean restaurant on East 26th Street, can enjoy dinner delivered the Old World way, arranged on fine bone china on big trays borne by uniformed waiters dodging traffic.

Following General Sir Charles James Napier's 1843 conquest of Sindh in India, the satirical magazine Punch (magazine) published a cartoon in which the despatch to his commanders was '"Peccavi"', meaning, in Latin "I have sinned" (I have Sindh).