Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Pasta in large-sized tubes.
- n. A dish consisting of such tubes stuffed with meat, vegetables, or cheese and baked in a tomato or cream sauce.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a tubular pasta filled with meat or cheese.
WordNet 3.0
- n. tubular pasta filled with meat or cheese
Etymologies
- Italian cannelloni, from Latin canna ("reed"). (Wiktionary)
- Italian, pl. of cannellone, tubular soup noodle, from cannello, small tube, diminutive of canna, reed, from Latin; see cane. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Sia's Corner said ... ha ha ha ha ... choo cute those two naughty, adorable cutie pies:) may be they very well know homemade cannelloni is much better than eating out:)”
“A canelón is a gutter, but in English we use the Italian name cannelloni for the pasta.”
“A chiffonade of herbs, mesclun and tiny yellow cherry tomatoes accompany a "cannelloni" of cucumber strips wrapped around sprouted quinoa and cashew cheese (their secret ingredient).”
“Or tube-shaped, tomato-sauced cannelloni hiding soft ground veal in their centers.”
“There are several palapa restaurants on this end of the beach and one of our favourites is Daniel's Backstreet and Brewing Company, primarily for its romantic beach side setting, but also for its scampi, cannelloni and home crafted beer.”
“Jehst knows the waitress bringing him his cannelloni with a side order of chips, and he exchanges jokey greetings with the owner.”
“I ordered cannelloni again and wrote, "I'm eating cannelloni all aloni.”
The Wall Street Journal: My Perfect Honeymoon (That I Spent Alone)
“I had cannelloni and bellinis at Harry's Bar on Calle Vallaresso, and stopped to listen to, of all things, Hava Nagila, played by a band in San Marco.”
The Wall Street Journal: My Perfect Honeymoon (That I Spent Alone)
“Ms. Parker, Mr. Broderick and Ms. Murphy stayed until the very end of the night, long after many of the financial folks and real-estate machers had polished off their sea bass and cannelloni.”
The Wall Street Journal: Mayor Plays Maestro at City Center Gala
“Every mouthful was deliciousness magnified by the outrageous price, from the featherweight cannelloni with ricotta and lemon to the luscious meatballs three brown spots on a red-sauce canvas!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cannelloni’.
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The Pasta Master
My favourite is potato
gnocchi,interesting that lists
devoted to pasta exclusively
missed pasta puttanesca,those who
really textually mine dictionaries
would not miss...manicotti, spaggers, stelline, spaghettini, spag, linguine, fettuccine, penne, rigatoni, mezzani, zita, spaghetti and 391 more...
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Pasta! Pasta! Pasta!
Who knew unleavened dough and homey Italian know-how could taste so good?
...and look so great!ziti, vermicelli, tubetti, troffiette, tripolini, trennette, trenne, tortiglioni, tortelloni, tortellini, torchio, tonnarelli and 104 more...
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Pasta la Vista
Because John's and colleen's and Lampbane's lists are their own, and they're such pasta hogs I have to make sure I get some for myself. :)
Includes noodles and other noodle-based items...zituane, rotini, rigati, marziani, salamini, fagioletti, eliche grandi, eliche, elefante, rotellini, rotelli, ziti and 296 more...
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My Favorite Types of Pasta
A selection of the creative and interesting types of pasta, for all WORDIE users to enjoy!
linguine, fusilli, cannelloni, capelli d'angelo, farfalle, capellini, cavatappi, conchiglie, acomo pepe, fettucine, lasagne, gemelli and 25 more...
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maccheroni
fettuccine, linguine, tagliatelle, fiori, fusilli, rotelle, conchiglie, farfalle, orecchiette, gigli, gemelli, gnocchi and 27 more...
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fuel & food
crumble, comestible, sommelier, coffee, wine, pepper, basil, ginseng, cherry, dill, honey, wineglass and 49 more...
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Pastas I have loved
Just because I love them, doesn't mean I've tried them--though I aspire to. I love all pasta on principle. I'm about 70% pasta by weight.
Most of these were thieved from--where else--Wik...gramigna, fioriettini, fiorentine, farfallone, creste di galli, cencioni, cechetti, cavatelli, campanelle, spaghetti, vermicelli, spaghettoni and 88 more...
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