noun
cannoli
ka-NOH-lih
noun
1
A Sicilian pastry consisting of a fried tube shell filled with sweetened ricotta or a similar cream.
"No Italian bakery display is complete without a tray of cannoli."
How to Use Cannoli
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA crisp pastry tube filled with sweet ricotta cream.
Word Forms
cannolis plural, cannoli plural
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Etymology
Borrowed from Italian cannoli, the plural of cannolo.