word | linguine |
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definition | A narrow, flat pasta. |
eg_sentence | As a test of her clients' table manners, she would serve them challenging dishes and watch to see how gracefully they could handle chopsticks or deal with long, slithery linguine. |
explanation | The modern language closest to Latin is Italian, and the Italian word linguine means literally “little tongues.” Linguine is only one of the types of pasta whose names describes their shapes. Others include spaghetti (“little strings”), fettuccine (“little ribbons”), penne (“little quills”), orzo (“barley”), farfalle (“butterflies”), vermicelli (“little worms”), capellini (“little hairs”), fusilli (“little spindles”), and radiatori (“little radiators”). If you're thinking about learning Italian, you could make a good start by just visiting an Italian restaurant |
IPA | lɪŋgˈwini |
Tags: mwvb::unit:11, mwvb::unit:11:word, mwvb::word, mwvb::word-cloze, mwvb::word-reverse, obsidian_to_anki
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