Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Pasta in small short tubes with diagonally cut ends.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An obsolete form of pen.
Wiktionary
- n. A type of short, diagonally cut pasta.
WordNet 3.0
- n. pasta in short tubes with diagonally cut ends
Etymologies
- Italian, pl. of penna, feather, quill pen, from Latin; see penna. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“MC: Any pasta with ridges, such as penne rigate, or crevices, like farfalle or orecchiette, because they hold the sauce well.”
Louise McCready: Chef Marco Canora on Cooking Under a Master's Wing and How to Avoid an Ulcer
“If you don't have enough time, simply use the herbed ricotta to dress al dente dried pasta shapes such as penne or orecchiette.”
“Italian themed dishes are offered, such as penne pasta, chicken pomodoro, toasted sandwiches and other foods.”
“2 Sauce: For 1 school lunch, cook 2 ounces bite-size noodles (such as penne) tender and toss with 2 tablespoons pesto.”
“n 1 pound short pasta such as penne, rotini or fiori”
“After pointing out that there's "very little to get wrong here", Simon Hopkinson and Lindsey Bareham deliver a googly in The Prawn Cocktail Years by calling for penne, rather than macaroni "because the cheese sauce is better able to flow inside this larger-sized pasta".”
“It's a pasta-free minestrone, and if I were making it, I'd cook up some penne or macaroni or other small pasta shape and add it, then freeze the rest.”
The Washington Post: Chat Leftovers: Pizza and pasta, a twofer
“It's tossed with bacon and penne pasta and served with grilled chicken breast.”
“I was over there today and went for Kwik Pastas penne w/meat sauce instead of Fahima.”
“Since then Muhammed has expanded his menu from 3 to 5 pastas, and yesterday I stopped by to try his new penne with meat sauce.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘penne’.
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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...trofie, torchio, sorprese lisce, strozzapreti, sorprese, rotini, ricciutelle, ricciolini, rotelle, radiatori, pipe, orecchiette 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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MacBean's Words
verisimilitude, antediluvian, schadenfreude, eviscerate, exsanguinate, onomatopoeia, aesthetic, apocryphal, aubergine, byronic, brouhaha, bordello and 523 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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Use Your Noodle
I love pasta, in all its numerous forms.
spaghetti, ravioli, mostaccioli, tortellini, vermicelli, lo mein, ramen, ziti, lasagna, linguine, fettuccine, macaroni and 5 more...
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Flour, water, and eggs =
Pasta!
campanelle, cavatelli, conchiglie, farfalle, fioriettini, fusilli, lanterne, orecchiette, pipe, rotelle, rotini, strozzapreti and 33 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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Food
Some of my favourite cooking and eating terms, some obscure, some so common as to be misunderstood.
sommelier, gustatory, oenophile, macedoine, bouquet garni, mince, braise, olio, cassoulet, render, larding, barding and 57 more...
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