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cannolilike en · ADJ

Etymology

From cannoli + -like.

Meanings

1. Resembling cannoli.
   • 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. 1997 March 14, Pat Bruno, “Cooking school cuisine // Hospitality eatery passes pop quiz”, in Chicago Sun-Times:
   • The tourists had slices of gjetost, a caramel-colored cheese, and krumkaker, a cannolilike pastry roll filled with lingonberry jam and whipped cream. 2009 May 15, Joseph Berger, “Changing Tastes, From Lingonberry to Baba Ghanouj”, in The New York Times:
   • 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. 1992, Food Arts, volume 5, page 246:

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