lasagna

plural lasagnas · plural lasagne · alternative lasagne

1. countableuncountableA flat sheet of pasta.
2. countableuncountableAn Italian baked dish comprising layers of such pasta with various ingredients (usually a meat ragù (chiefly Bolognese), a fish ragù or a vegetarian/vegetable ragù with bechamel sauce).

   I’m going to fix you a cup of coffee and a plate of lasagna.

   2013, James Lee Burke, Light of the World, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 299

3. broadlycountableuncountableA combination or layering of things.

   It's sort of a lasagna of ideas about time and dreams.

   2011, Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, Inception and Philosophy: Ideas to Die for, Open Court Publishing, →ISBN, page 280

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   Kristofer'd gotten it through his head shortly after their arrival to swim naked in the lake, such as it was, and his skin blemished into a lasagna of red hives, white welts, and disarming yellowish spots.

   1996, Lance Olsen, Time Famine: A Novel

   Unfortunately, typical mattresses are often a lasagna of nonbiodegradable synthetics, pesticides, and potentially carcinogenic toxins.

   2008, Body & Soul

   “Everything about us is just one layer of lies after another. We're a lasagna of lies. This is a terrible basis for a relationship.”

   2013, Molly Harper, How to Run with a Naked Werewolf, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN

   CHOCOLATE LASAGNA / Who says lasagna is only a main dish? Serve this easy, no-bake lasagna for dessert. / Ingredients / 2 3.9-ounce packages (110 g) instant chocolate pudding mix / 2 cups (473 mL) milk / 8 ounces (227g) whipped topping / 16 graham crackers, chocolate or plan / 1 1/2 cups (75g) mini marshmallows / chocolate syrup

   2020, Rebecca E. Hirsch, Garfield's Guide to Lasagna: Cooking Nature's Perfect Food, Lerner Publications, →ISBN, page 20

   When you have lifted a layered lasagne of toilet paper and semen from the floor of a submarine yard in Barrow-in-Furness, there’s not much left in the world that can scare you.

   2025 September 23, Tom Lamont, “The human stain remover: what Britain’s greatest extreme cleaner learned from 25 years on the job”, in The Guardian