Chitarra is the Italian word for guitar - unsurprisingly. However in this contect it is a reference to the device which was/is used to make pasta in certain parts of Italian - Umbria and Tuscany. It consists of a flat wooden box open at the top and one end. Across the large flat open side there are metal strings strung tautly a few millimeters apart . Pasta is rolled on to the strings which cut it into long spaghetti like pieces, which collect in the box.
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Rowlandwithaw commented on the word technolust
I used the word TECHNOLUST as the title of an article in a publication called Sound on Sound in March 1989
October 18, 2015
Rowlandwithaw commented on the word neologigram
Neologigram - a visual interpretation of a neologism
www.neologigrams.com
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Rowlandwithaw commented on the word Pantechnion
It doesn't appear since the word is pantechnicon
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Rowlandwithaw commented on the word chitarra
Chitarra is the Italian word for guitar - unsurprisingly. However in this contect it is a reference to the device which was/is used to make pasta in certain parts of Italian - Umbria and Tuscany. It consists of a flat wooden box open at the top and one end. Across the large flat open side there are metal strings strung tautly a few millimeters apart . Pasta is rolled on to the strings which cut it into long spaghetti like pieces, which collect in the box.
October 18, 2015