lasagna
Americannoun
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large, flat, rectangular strips of pasta.
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a baked dish consisting of layers of this pasta, cheese, tomato sauce, and usually meat.
Etymology
Origin of lasagna
1840–50; < Italian < Vulgar Latin *lasania cooking pot (hence, apparently, the contents of the pot), for Latin lasanum, lasanus chamber pot < Greek lásana (plural), originally, trivet or stand for a pot
Example Sentences
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Aluminum trays of pasta bakes: lasagna, baked spaghetti, manicotti, stuffed shells.
From Salon
Thank lasagna I wasn’t the only one nervous/embarrassed/having a minor freak-out.
From Literature
Inside I found a large portion of the lasagna that had been at dinner yesterday, reheated so the cheese stuck in gooey puddles to the foil.
From Literature
“People tend to think that lasagna is simple, but it’s actually a bit more complicated than the braised short ribs,” Matijevich says.
From Salon
To make matters even worse, the food emitting that delicious smell, the food that Maya-Jade was eating, was lasagna.
From Literature
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