fettuccini

Thân thiện

A chef tosses fresh fettuccini in a pan with sauce.

Definition

Noun 1. A type of pasta: Fettuccini refers to a specific variety of Italian pasta. It is characterized by its shape: flat, ribbon-like strips. These strips are notably wider than those of linguine, another type of long, thin pasta.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • For dinner, we had homemade fettuccini with a creamy Alfredo sauce.
  • The recipe calls for 250 grams of dried fettuccini.
  • She prefers fettuccini to spaghetti because the wider noodles hold more sauce.

Advanced Usage

• The word is often used in the context of specific, classic Italian dishes, most famously .
• While "fettuccini" is a common spelling in English, the standard Italian spelling is "fettuccine". Both refer to the same pasta.

Variants and Related Words

• Fettuccine (n): The Italian spelling of the same pasta.
• Tagliatelle (n): A very similar type of ribbon pasta from the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy; it is essentially the same as fettuccini.
• Linguine (n): A type of pasta that is also long and thin, but in the form of flattened spaghetti, narrower than fettuccini.

Synonyms

• Pasta (n): The general category of Italian food made from dough. (Fettuccini is a specific type of pasta.)
• Noodles (n): A more general term for strips of dough, often used in various cuisines. (Note: "Fettuccini" is specifically an Italian pasta shape.)

Học thuật

Noun

1. pasta in flat strips wider than linguine

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