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pastichio.

A Greek dish made with cheese, chopped meat and pasta, resembling lasagna.

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Meaning & usage

noun
  1. A Greek dish made with cheese, chopped meat and pasta, resembling lasagna.

    countable · uncountable
Where this word comes from

From Italian pasticcio (“hodge-podge”), from Vulgar Latin *pasticium, from *pastīcius (“of dough”), from Latin pasta (“dough, pastry cake, paste”), from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá, “barley porridge”), from παστός (pastós, “sprinkled with salt”). Doublet of pastiche.

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