Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Pasta in small short tubes with diagonally cut ends.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
pen .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A type of short,
diagonally cutpasta .
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- noun pasta in short tubes with diagonally cut ends
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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 2009
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If you don't have enough time, simply use the herbed ricotta to dress al dente dried pasta shapes such as penne or orecchiette.
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Italian themed dishes are offered, such as penne pasta, chicken pomodoro, toasted sandwiches and other foods.
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2 Sauce: For 1 school lunch, cook 2 ounces bite-size noodles (such as penne) tender and toss with 2 tablespoons pesto.
chicagotribune.com - 2010
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n 1 pound short pasta such as penne, rotini or fiori
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n 1 pound short pasta such as penne, rotini or fiori
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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.
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It's tossed with bacon and penne pasta and served with grilled chicken breast.
Cannes Lions ad festival may not roar so loudly this year 2009
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I was over there today and went for Kwik Pastas penne w/meat sauce instead of Fahima.
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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".
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February 23, 2010