Noun: rigatone
| Singular | rigatone |
| Plural | rigatoni |
Sample Sentences
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Richard stole a rigatone from Kesho’s plate. [1993, Camilla T. Crespi [pseudonym; Camilla Trinchieri], The Trouble with Thin Ice, New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 256:]
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He looked straight in my eyes and nuzzled the cuff of my jeans so I flipped him a rigatone. He nuzzled again so I flipped a few more; the third one landed right on his back, scattering red sauce across the shiny puppy fur. [2012, Joseph Harry Silber, “Tantrums”, in Bum, [Morrisville, N.C.]: [Lulu.com], →ISBN, section 13, page 23:]
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What pleasure it is for us to bite into a rigatone, a bucatina or a penna which has been cooked just right.... [2012 January/February, Sergio G. Grasso, “The everlasting taste of pasta”, in Il Cuoco, number 303, Federazione Italiana Cuochi, page 80, column 1:]
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The first was a poster with a white spoon and fork set against a sky blue background, with just two pieces of spaghetti, one farfalle, a rigatone and two penne, nothing else. [2013, “Liftoff”, in Aaron Maines, transl., edited by Francesco Alberoni, Pietro Barilla: “Everything is done for the future, forge ahead with courage.” The Biography of an Extraordinary Italian Entrepreneur, Milan: RCS Libri S.p.A., page 19:]
Nouns inflected like rigatone
salume,
Calabrese,
zampone,
sotto voce,
principe,
echtrae,
frate,
bersagliere,
cognoscente,
frazione,
carabiniere,
Sassarese,
rigatone,
improvvisatrice,
relazione,
soffione,
improvvisatore,
Italian Spinone,
tafone,
duce, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian rigatone.