Bolognese

[ boh-luh-neez, -nees, -luhn-yeez, -yees; boh-luhn-yeyz, -yey-zeeor, Italian, baw-law-nye-ze ]

adjective

1. of or relating to Bologna or its inhabitants.
2. Italian Cooking. served with a cream sauce typically containing prosciutto, ground beef, and cheese.
3. Fine Arts. noting a style or manner of painting developed in Bologna during the late 16th century by the Carracci, characterized chiefly by forms and colors derived from the Roman high renaissance and from the Venetians.

noun

, plural Bo·lo·gnese.

1. a native or inhabitant of Bologna.

Bolognese

/ -ˈneɪz; ˌbɒləˈniːz /

adjective

1. of or relating to Bologna or its inhabitants

noun

1. a native or inhabitant of Bologna

Word History and Origins

Origin of Bolognese¹

From Italian, dating back to 1750–60; Bologna, -ese

Example Sentences

Transporting the Bolognese batch served to literally put all my eggs in one basket.

From MIT Technology Review

These included Bolognese sauce, turkey meatballs, beef and lentil minestrone, turmeric-coconut curry sauce, dark chocolate and banana muffins, and buckwheat-chocolate-molasses cookies.

From Outside Online

In fall, she serves the popular Bolognese on pasta made from chestnut flour, and autumn is more luscious because of it.

From Washington Post

The online delivery grocer FreshDirect uses it in meatballs, lasagna, Bolognese and meatloaf.

From Washington Post

Customers come for $25 pasta kits that feed three or four — Bolognese and cacio e pepe sauce have been top sellers so far.

From Washington Post

His prophecy kicked off a vertiginous frenzy of doomsaying, and he was thrown in jail by fearful Bolognese officials.

From The Daily Beast

The city and its environs are where lasagna, tortellini, and Bolognese sauce—not to mention bologna—originated.

From The Daily Beast

We had weird food concoctions, too, so instead of spaghetti bolognese, we had rice bolognese with kimchi.

From The Daily Beast

I dropped a fork full of spaghetti bolognese when I heard these words from the TV screen.

From The Daily Beast

He had fought for the Italian liberty in the year 1831, when the Bolognese revolution broke out.

From Project Gutenberg

He dearly loved the Romans and Venetians; we believe to-day that he loved almost too dearly the Bolognese.

From Project Gutenberg

The heads on Bolognese shoulders are worth little purchase, and who leaves not the town to-night will never leave the town at all.

From Project Gutenberg

We know nothing of the Ludovico referred to as the maker, but who, as is noted, was a Bolognese.

From Project Gutenberg

A Bolognese painter, studied under his cousin, Lodovico, who advised him to study the works of Correggio.

From Project Gutenberg