agnolotti

noun

ag·​no·​lot·​ti ˌän-yə-ˈlä-tē 

-ˈlȯ-

plural agnolotti

: pasta in the form of semicircular cases containing a filling (as of meat, cheese, or vegetables)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web

The menu includes choices of a New York strip tagliata, Limone agnolotti or steak tartare. —Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 9 Feb. 2023

An appetizer of cuttlefish, chickpeas and ’nduja was savory and spicy in perfect balance; the pastas, both a lovely agnolotti stuffed with pumpkin in a sage-and-butter sauce and a spaghetti in a hearty ragù of pork shoulder, were extraordinary. —Eric Asimov, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2023

One night, there could be agnolotti, a miniature envelope of pasta stuffed with rabbit and baby leeks, layered in cream sauce and sprinkled with pancetta; on another, short twists of casarecce bathed with fennel sausage sugo and pecorino romano. —Dallas News, 25 Oct. 2022

New York is a place singularly obsessed with reinventing its own rituals and power moves — and there’s nothing like sharing agnolotti with friends before dusk on a Tuesday to demonstrate you’re a master of your own universe. —Rachel Sugar Jane Dickson, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2022

Some of Osteria il Muro’s menu standouts include rabbit agnolotti; peppadew peppers with ricotta; and fresh-baked focaccia, Albee reports. —Dallas News, 1 Nov. 2022

For main plates, diners will served duck agnolotti with foie gras, octopus, and ribeye. —Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Dec. 2022

Dishes will include Hokkaido scallop crudo, fromage blanc agnolotti, Mary duck breast, lamb sausage and chop and French cheesecake. —Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2022

Then move on to the pasta, like the sweet corn agnolotti, king crab tagliolino nero and gnocchi with chunks of sausage. —Forbes Travel Guide, Forbes, 2 June 2022

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Word History

Etymology

borrowed from Italian, plural of agnolotto, agnellotto, alteration of *anegliotto, alteration of anellotto, diminutive of anello "ring," going back to Latin ānellus, diminutive of ānus "ring" — more at anus

First Known Use

1841, in the meaning defined above