cannellone

plural cannelloni

1. raresingularsingular of cannelloni

   In this ritzy Italian sanctum thoughts of salmons and haggises vanish at the flick of a cannellone.

   1987, Stephen Birnbaum, editor, Birnbaum’s Great Britain and Ireland 1988 (Stephen Birnbaum Travel Guides), Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 691

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   Make the Homemade Pasta (see recipe) and cut the sheets across their length with a sharp knife or pizza cutter the width of the baking dish you wish to use. For example, if you plan to use a 9-inch-wide baking dish, each sheet of pasta for a cannellone should be 9 inches long by 5 inches wide.

   1984, Paola Scaravelli, Jon Cohen, Cooking from an Italian Garden, New York, N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →ISBN, page 97

   Felice shook his head as he read through the cold facts that identified but said nothing really about her. Just the shell, a cannellone without the filling. How would he find the meat and cheese, the egg that held it together, the herbs and seasoning that gave it zest? He warmed to the task ahead of him. He would track down every friend, every enemy, every lover. By the time he was through the cannellone would bulge.

   1984, R. A. Scotti, The Kiss of Judas, New York, N.Y.: Fawcett Crest, Ballantine Books, published 1986, →ISBN, page 155

   He left her and began rolling the cannelloni. “Bonne mère!” he thought, she had to catch me in the middle of cooking to begin a serious conversation. She’ll be talking about marriage next. / “It’s supposed to mean,” she said, “. . . it does mean that we should try to think about the future.” / “Damn!” he cursed. “Now you’ve made me rip a cannellone.”

   1986, Howard R. Simpson, Junior Year Abroad, Garden City, N.Y.: The Crime Club, →ISBN, page 137

   Roll up each square into a cannellone and arrange them, seam-side-down, in a buttered, ovenproof dish.

   1986, Mary Stuttard, transl., Pasta: From A to Z, London: Comet, →ISBN, page 46

   With one hand she held a cannellone. She was pushing the meat stuffing into the tube with a finger of the other hand.

   2000, Jeff Shapiro, Renato’s Luck, New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 112