cannellone

English

Etymology

From Italian cannellone.

Noun

cannellone (plural cannelloni)

1. (rare) singular of cannelloni
   • 1984, Paola Scaravelli, Jon Cohen, Cooking from an Italian Garden, New York, N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →ISBN, page 97:

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

     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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

   • 2003, Josep Maria Pinto, translated by Cillero & De Motta, elBulli 1998-2002, Roses, Girona, →ISBN, page 460:

     As for the shape, we opted for a cannellone, a solution that we were very pleased with, and which marked the entry of avocado sheets into our world of new pastas.

   • 2010, Valentina Sforza, 500 Italian Dishes, London: Apple Press, →ISBN, page 98:

     Take a sheet of pasta, drain and blot dry. Place flat on a board and add a tablespoon of filling. Roll up to make a cannellone and place in buttered dish.

   • 2013, Jordi Puntí, translated by Julie Wark, Lost Luggage, New York, N.Y.: Marble Arch Press, →ISBN, page 347:

     The wool mattress, rolled up like a cannellone, was waiting to be beaten.

   • 2017, Roberta Graziano, translated by Rossella Romeo, Natural Cooking: Easy and Quick Recipes to Correct Your Eating Habits‎^[1], Babelcube, Inc., →ISBN:

     At the center of each square lay a spoonful of that mixture and roll it up to obtain the shape of a cannellone.

Italian

Etymology

From cannello +‎ -one.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kan.nelˈlo.ne/
• Rhymes: -one
• Hyphenation: can‧nel‧ló‧ne

Noun

cannellone m (plural cannelloni)

1. (usually in the plural) a large tube of pasta with a savoury/savory filling baked in the oven

Further reading

• cannellone in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana