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Grammar : Noun
Spell : pah-stuh; especially British pas-tuh
Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɑ stə; especially British ˈpæs tə

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Définition of pasta

Origin :
  • 1874, from Italian pasta, from Late Latin pasta "dough, pastry cake, paste," from Greek pasta "barley porridge," probably originally "a salted mess of food," from neuter plural of pastos (adj.) "sprinkled, salted," from passein "to sprinkle," from PIE root *kwet- "to shake" (see quash).
  • noun noodles
Example sentences :
  • Pasta, on hearing her sing, encouraged her, and recommended a teacher.
  • Extract from : « Heroes of the Telegraph » by J. Munro
  • Dip them into a pasta marinate (No. 17), and fry them a golden brown.
  • Extract from : « The Cook's Decameron: A Study in Taste: » by Mrs. W. G. Waters
  • Upon the second night Pasta did not come to hear her new rival.
  • Extract from : « Garcia the Centenarian And His Times » by M. Sterling Mackinlay
  • From that moment she was the pet of the Milanese public: Pasta's reign was over.
  • Extract from : « Garcia the Centenarian And His Times » by M. Sterling Mackinlay
  • She could not awe, like Pasta, but she could fascinate and charm.
  • Extract from : « Famous Singers of To-day and Yesterday » by Henry C. Lahee
  • Never had Malibran nor Pasta sung with expression and intonation so perfect.
  • Extract from : « A Woman of Thirty » by Honore de Balzac
  • What a fellow you are never to say a word about Pasta to me!
  • Extract from : « The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton » by Mrs. Russell Barrington
  • Pasta and Rubini surpassed themselves in the splendor of their performance.
  • Extract from : « Great Singers, First Series » by George T. Ferris
  • Pasta, at the end of the first act, declared the new opera a fiasco.
  • Extract from : « Great Singers, Second Series » by George T. Ferris
  • It was during this season that Pasta first sang with Malibran.
  • Extract from : « Great Singers, First Series » by George T. Ferris

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