Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to Bologna, a city of northern central Italy, famous during the middle ages for its university, or to a school of painting founded there by Lodovico Carracci (1555-1619), and also called the Eclectic School, from its declared intent (in the fulfilment of which it fell very far short) to combine the excellences of all other schools.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to Bologna.
- adjective (Paint.) a school of painting founded by the Carracci, otherwise called the Lombard or Eclectic school, the object of which was to unite the excellences of the preceding schools.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
Italian sauce made of ground meat andtomato . - noun A dish served with bolognese.
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Examples
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Sara, sometime ago I promised you a polenta recipe, it's up on my blog, it is called bolognese polenta.
Weekend Cookbook Challenge 26 - Crock Pots, Dutch Ovens and Pressure Cookers. Sara 2008
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When I was growing up in the US my schoolmates loved spaghetti with meatballs, which I found very odd (Tuscans make sugo alla bolognese, which is made with ground meat), and shrank horrified from anchovies and Gorgonzola.
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This week, the Italian farmers 'union denounced your' bolognese 'sauce as an' improbable concoction '.
Home | Mail Online 2010
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But it bears no resemblance to a traditional Italian 'bolognese', known as a ragu, which has no garlic whatsoever, nor a single herb.
Home | Mail Online 2010
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This week, the Italian farmers 'union denounced your' bolognese 'sauce as an' improbable concoction '.
Home | Mail Online 2010
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But it bears no resemblance to a traditional Italian 'bolognese', known as a ragu, which has no garlic whatsoever, nor a single herb.
Home | Mail Online 2010
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In the United States as well, the term 'bolognese' is often applied to a tomato-and-ground-beef sauce that bears little resemblance to ragù served in Bologna.
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Bill Chait was overseeing their Short Order booth, explaining Nancy Silverton and Amy Pessman would open in the Farmer's Market hopefully in late summer as he served me a sloppy bolognese slider.
Jay Weston: Share Our Strength Fights Childhood Hunger at Taste of Nation Jay Weston 2011
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Bill Chait was overseeing their Short Order booth, explaining Nancy Silverton and Amy Pessman would open in the Farmer's Market hopefully in late summer as he served me a sloppy bolognese slider.
Jay Weston: Share Our Strength Fights Childhood Hunger at Taste of Nation Jay Weston 2011
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Bill Chait was overseeing their Short Order booth, explaining Nancy Silverton and Amy Pessman would open in the Farmer's Market hopefully in late summer as he served me a sloppy bolognese slider.
Jay Weston: Share Our Strength Fights Childhood Hunger at Taste of Nation Jay Weston 2011
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