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prettygoodwordfusilli (fyoo-SEE-lee, fyoo-SIL-ee) - n., pasta twisted into a spiral shape.
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From southern Italian dialect fusilli, plural of fusillo, diminutive of fuso, spindle (from Latin fūsus, origin unknown but probably not Indo-European), because they were traditionally made by wrapping pasta dough around a spindle. This is believed to originally be an Arabic form of pasta -- it's known as busiata in Sicily and busa in Sardinia, the two Italian regions where Muslim civilization most penetrated, and both names come from the Arabic bus, thin reed, which traditionally used instead of as the spindle in those regions.
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From southern Italian dialect fusilli, plural of fusillo, diminutive of fuso, spindle (from Latin fūsus, origin unknown but probably not Indo-European), because they were traditionally made by wrapping pasta dough around a spindle. This is believed to originally be an Arabic form of pasta -- it's known as busiata in Sicily and busa in Sardinia, the two Italian regions where Muslim civilization most penetrated, and both names come from the Arabic bus, thin reed, which traditionally used instead of as the spindle in those regions.
---L.
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