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Cannoli

2 stages from Italian to English.

Today it means a Sicilian pastry shaped like a tube, filled with sweetened ricotta cheese
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Stage 1 of 2
cannolo
Italian · medieval
"a little tube"
literally a little tube, a diminutive of canna (a reed, a tube)
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Stage 2 of 2
cannoli
English · 1930s
"a tube-shaped pastry filled with sweet cheese"
adopted directly for the tube-shaped Sicilian pastry filled with sweet cheese
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