Bolognese

[ boh-luh-neez, -nees, -luhn-yeez, -yees; boh-luhn-yeyz, -yey-zeeor, Italian, baw-law-nye-ze ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

of or relating to Bologna or its inhabitants.
Italian Cooking. served with a cream sauce typically containing prosciutto, ground beef, and cheese.
Fine Arts. noting a style or manner of painting developed in Bologna during the late 16th century by the Carracci, characterized chiefly by forms and colors derived from the Roman high renaissance and from the Venetians.

, plural Bo·lo·gnese.

Bolognese

/ -ˈneɪz; ˌbɒləˈniːz /

From Italian, dating back to 1750–60; Bologna, -ese

His prophecy kicked off a vertiginous frenzy of doomsaying, and he was thrown in jail by fearful Bolognese officials.

The city and its environs are where lasagna, tortellini, and Bolognese sauce—not to mention bologna—originated.

We had weird food concoctions, too, so instead of spaghetti bolognese, we had rice bolognese with kimchi.

I dropped a fork full of spaghetti bolognese when I heard these words from the TV screen.

He had fought for the Italian liberty in the year 1831, when the Bolognese revolution broke out.

He dearly loved the Romans and Venetians; we believe to-day that he loved almost too dearly the Bolognese.

The heads on Bolognese shoulders are worth little purchase, and who leaves not the town to-night will never leave the town at all.

We know nothing of the Ludovico referred to as the maker, but who, as is noted, was a Bolognese.

A Bolognese painter, studied under his cousin, Lodovico, who advised him to study the works of Correggio.

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