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lasagna

lasagna \lasagna\, lasagne \lasagne\(l[.a]*z[.a]n"y[u^]), n.

  1. A baked dish of layers of lasagna[2] pasta with sauce and cheese and meat or vegetables; -- a popular dish of Italian cuisine.

  2. large flat rectangular strips of pasta.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
lasagna

"pasta cut in long, wide strips; a dish made from this," 1760 (as an Italian word in English), from Italian (plural is lasagne), from Vulgar Latin *lasania, from Latin lasanum "a pot," from Greek lasanon "pot with feet, trivet."

Wiktionary
lasagna

n. 1 A flat sheet of pasta. 2 An Italian baked dish comprising layers of such pasta with (usually) bolognese and bechamel sauce.

WordNet
lasagna
  1. n. baked dish of layers of lasagna pasta with sauce and cheese and meat or vegetables [syn: lasagne]

  2. very wide flat strips of pasta [syn: lasagne]

Wikipedia
Lasagna (song)

"Lasagna" is a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic. It is a parody of " La Bamba", a traditional song popularized by Ritchie Valens and Los Lobos.

Usage examples of "lasagna".

With the cribs in place and the packaging hauled out to the overflowing trash bin, he washed up, then walked into the kitchen just as Tess pulled the lasagna from the oven.

My mother had put out an antipasto platter, fresh bread from Peoples, and a pan of sausage-and-cheese lasagna.

Valerie said, working the lasagna around in her mouth, grabbing a meat-and-cheese roll-up from the antipasto tray.

The lasagna that won the blue ribbon had been baked by eleven nuns, and was as big and soft as a large mattress.

This Jew has worked on the heads of some of the biggest lasagnas in Washington.

Then she laughed, and within moments they chortled together over what she was certain had to be one of the worst-tasting replicated lasagnas in history.

She wore a frilly apron and quilted oven mitts and carried a steaming glass dish of lasagna.

The approaching crowd felt like a root vegetable that made every tree in the Finite Forest look like a tiny twig, made the huge lasagna served at the Prufrock Preparatory School cafeteria look like a light snack, and made the skyscraper at 667 Dark Avenue look like a dollhouse made for midget children to play with, a root vegetable so tremendous in size that it would win every first-place ribbon in every starchy farm crop competition in every state and county fair in the entire world from now until the end of time.

He drifted in and out of sleep, mocked by twilight dreams of a Lasagna Wife or a Rack of Lamb Mistress.

Something flashed by Theo and he spun to see Gabe Fenton running hell-bent-for-leather at the window, holding before him a long stainless-steel pan full of lasagna, evidently intent upon diving through the window in a pastafarian act of self-sacrifice.

She was holding three stainless-steel pans of lasagna and still managed to get the oak double doors closed against the wind with her feet.