Bolognese
Americanadjective
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of or relating to Bologna or its inhabitants.
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Italian Cooking. served with a cream sauce typically containing prosciutto, ground beef, and cheese.
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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.
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Etymology
Origin of Bolognese
From Italian, dating back to 1750–60; see origin at Bologna, -ese
Example Sentences
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The Commerce Department acted after a long-running probe into pricing practices for the product that goes into everything from spaghetti Bolognese to mac and cheese.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2025
He told the court that Ms Patterson had tried to kill him with a curry, a wrap, Bolognese pasta, and even with chocolate cookies she claimed their daughter had made him.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2025
She taught me how to make pasta by hand on a plywood board and how to craft her famous tortellini filled with a traditional Bolognese sauce.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2024
We cooked Bolognese sauce, wrote songs together and continued talking about the meaning of life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2024
I would basically just do a few laps around the room, scarfing my pasta Bolognese, which I found out was not pasta and baloney, but was actually just regular spaghetti.
From "Patina" by Jason Reynolds
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