lasagna
- 1A baked Italian food made of flat pasta sheets layered with sauce, cheese, and often meat.
Like a stack of pancakes, but with pasta, sauce, and cheese in each layer.
We made lasagna for dinner with extra cheese on top.
The lasagna in the oven smells amazing.
- 2A flat, wide sheet of pasta used to build layered baked dishes.
Like a wide, flat noodle shaped like a sheet of paper.
Lay each lasagna flat in the pan before spooning on the sauce.
The dried lasagna softened after a few minutes in boiling water.
- 3A mix or stack of different things put together in layers.
Like piling many blankets one on top of another.
The new policy was a lasagna of rules stacked on top of old ones.
Her week felt like a lasagna of meetings, errands, and chores.
Similarpatchwork, mishmash, hodgepodge, jumble
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Origin
From Italian lasagna. It may come from Latin lasanum meaning "cooking pot," or possibly from an Arabic word for "almond cake."