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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ravioli
noun
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▪ He orders ravioli with foie gras and white truffle shavings.
▪ Plus Sunday lunch ideas and step-by-step to ravioli.
▪ The ravioli are cooked al dente and topped with a rich tomato vodka sauce.
▪ The ravioli are huge, like saucers, each one stuffed with the exquisite mixture.
▪ The cheese ravioli in vodka sauce.
▪ The clothing and sets resembling ravioli, tortellini and spaghetti could get you thinking about dinner.
▪ When it was cut into ravioli, I decided, I would brush each one very lightly with egg white.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ravioli

1610s, from Middle English raffyolys, also rafyols (late 14c.). The word probably was re-borrowed several times, most recently in 1841, from Italian ravioli, a dialectal plural of raviolo, a diminutive of an unidentified noun, perhaps of rava "turnip."

Wiktionary
ravioli

n. 1 Small square parcels of pasta filled with meat, cheese, spinach etc. 2 A dish made with ravioli.

WordNet
ravioli

n. small circular or square cases of dough with savory fillings [syn: cappelletti]

Wikipedia
Ravioli

Ravioli (plural form; singular: raviolo) are a type of dumpling composed of a filling sealed between two layers of thin pasta dough. Usually served either in broth or with a pasta sauce, they originated as a traditional food in Italian cuisine. Ravioli are typically square, though other forms are also used, including circular or semi-circular ( mezzelune). Other related filled pastas include the ring-shaped tortellini and the larger tortelloni.

Ravioli (TV series)

Ravioli is a German children's television series. It aired in 1984 on ZDF, co-produced with UFA and Imagion AG. Thirteen 25 minute episodes were produced, directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb. The music for the series was composed by Birger Heymann.

Usage examples of "ravioli".

Moore, dumping his ashes on top of the ravioli, his voice rising in anger.

He would have never thought the word masturbation would have a life-altering effect on him, but here he was gasping for air because a ravioli noodle went down the wrong pipe.

No message there but a can of ravioli in a pot on the stove, with the can-opener propped up beside it.

Lambrusco, and they settled on a starter each and followed it with another, rather than a main, choosing a clear soup, followed by spinach and feta ravioli served with mushrooms.

The waiter came by and put down a steaming plate of ravioli, taking away the soup bowl.

And I was really looking forward to the butternut-squash ravioli, so you have to have it for me.

I was thinking about a can of ravioli and a twenty-minute nap, but when I walked into my room there was Jim, sitting on the bed, leaning against the wall, a half-empty bottle of vodka resting against his thigh.

She had doused the ravioli in very expensive olive oil and freshly grated Parmesan.

Leaning across the table, she speared two ravioli and simultaneously craned her head to read his notes.

Bobby brought out plates of ravioli with tomato sauce, and mixed vegetables.

I fetched something like kale ravioli or turnip jam, and some eggs and cheese when I brought them a maccherone, and even good meat when I could sneak a bit of mortadella or pork jelly.

Tupperware containers heaped with ravioli, baked ziti, eggplant parmigiana, fried zucchini, and other things with unpronounceable names.

We had frutti di mare, ravioli, lobster salad and zabaione with Lacrima Cristi.

We had narbe di San Paolo which is a kind of ravioli filled with sugar and ricotta cheese and fried and cannolo, prob-ably the most famous sweet in Sicily, consisting of a tube of flour and egg filled with cream.

Rom was so startled, he misentered the last digit of the tribble-pie code and then cringed as a hundred-count of brain-stuffed ravioli sprayed out from the mouth of the replicator.