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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fettuccine

1922, from Italian fettuccine, plural of fettuccina, literally "little ribbon," diminutive of fetta "slice, ribbon" (see fetta).

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fettuccine

n. Long, flat ribbons of pasta, cut from a rolled-out sheet; identical in form to tagliatelle.

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fettuccine

n. pasta in flat strips wider than linguine [syn: fettuccini]

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Fettuccine

Fettuccine (; literally "little ribbons" in Italian; sing. Fettuccina) is a type of pasta popular in Roman and Tuscan cuisine. It is a flat thick noodle made of egg and flour (usually one egg for every 100 g of flour), wider than but similar to the tagliatelle typical of Bologna. It is often eaten with sugo d'umido (beef ragù) and ragù di pollo (chicken ragù).

Fettuccine is traditionally made fresh (either at home or commercially) but dried fettuccine can also be bought in shops.

Spinach fettuccine is made from spinach, flour, and eggs.

Usage examples of "fettuccine".

If the Burg was a food, it would be pasta-penne rigate, ziti, fettuccine, spaghetti, and elbow macaroni, swimming in marinara, cheese sauce, or mayo.

Bogota, nuclear bunkers in Nevada, supermarkets in Surrey and it was by sheer chance that I fancied some fettuccine with flies for lunch and found you here .

There'd been mad, glamorous trips to this country and to that, preparing fettuccine for a prince or cannelloni for a tycoon.

Even though we are cooking beef Bourguignon, fettuccine Alfredo, and various other freeze-dried specialties, he insists that we drop our pretense of having enough and eat his food.

If the Burg was a food, it would be pasta-penne rigate, ziti, fettuccine, spaghetti, and elbow macaroni, swimming in marinara, cheese sauce, or mayo.

Nomuri first of all ordered a genuine Italian white wine--- strangely, the wine list here was actually first rate, and quite pricey to boot, of course--- and, with a deep breath, fettuccine Alfredo, quintessential Italian heart-attack food.

Nomuri first of all ordered a genuine Italian white wine -- strangely, the wine list here was actually first rate, and quite pricey to boot, of course -- and, with a deep breath, fettuccine Alfredo, quintessential Italian heart-attack food.

Daddy's mixing drinks-which we're giving them the hell away to make up for the poor service-and I just burned two orders of chicken because I had to go in there and mop up after that pea-brained Sissy dumped a plate of shrimp fettuccine Alfredo on Becky Fitzsimmons's lap.

Palmer Stoat ordered an antipasto salad, garlic rolls, fettuccine Alfredo, a side of meatballs, and before long Desie had to look away, for fear of being sick.

Several day before, it had been an extra-rich fettuccine Alfredo, a few days before that, a thick-gravied beef stew.

By the time Jacqueline finished her survey it was almost time for lunch, so she consumed fettuccine Alfredo and strawberry pie smothered in whipped cream, assuring herself that food was essential if one lacked sleep.

Cathy made fettuccine Alfredo while Peter put together a Caesar salad with real bacon bits crisped in the microwave, and they collaborated on making a cake for dessert.

The mushroom salad, the fettuccine Alfredo, and the zabaglione had been excellent.

They make him step like Stepin Fetchit and feed him fettuccine with the Cuban kitchen crew.

Today's special is a generous portion of fettuccine dressed with clams and sweet peppers, in a white sauce with cheese.