lasagna
- 1A baked Italian dish made of layered pasta sheets with a meat, fish, or vegetable ragù and béchamel sauce.
She layered the lasagna with ground beef, ricotta, and a rich tomato sauce.
The restaurant's vegetable lasagna uses roasted zucchini and a creamy béchamel.
- 2A broad, flat sheet of pasta, used as the layering element in baked dishes.
Soak each lasagna in warm water so it bends without cracking.
The fresh lasagna, rolled thin by hand, cooked in under two minutes.
- 3A combination or layering of different things, one set placed on top of another.
The software's architecture was a lasagna of legacy systems and quick fixes.
His argument was a lasagna of half-truths layered over a single real grievance.
Similarpatchwork, mishmash, hodgepodge, jumble
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Origin
From Italian lasagna (plural lasagne), possibly from Vulgar Latin *lasania, from Latin lasanum ("cooking pot"), from Ancient Greek lásanon ("trivet or stand for a pot"). Others argue the Italian word instead derived from the Arabic lawzīnaj ("almond cake").