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cannolilike

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English

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Etymology

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From cannoli +‎ -like.

Adjective

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cannolilike (comparative more cannolilike, superlative most cannolilike)

  1. Resembling cannoli.
    • 1992, Food Arts, volume 5, page 246:
      Among many masa dishes is a cannolilike dessert: Masa is molded around a tube, deep-fried, cooled, sugar dusted, then filled with pumpkin seed mousse and tipped with finely minced fresh mint.
    • 2024 March 14, Pat Bruno, “Cooking school cuisine // Hospitality eatery passes pop quiz”, in Chicago Sun-Times:
      Crushed ginger snaps were rolled into a cannolilike shape and filled with whipped cream, strawberries and kiwifruit, more of which were arranged on the plate.
    • 2024 May 15, Joseph Berger, “Changing Tastes, From Lingonberry to Baba Ghanouj”, in The New York Times[1]:
      The tourists had slices of gjetost, a caramel-colored cheese, and krumkaker, a cannolilike pastry roll filled with lingonberry jam and whipped cream.