capellini
noun
cap·el·lini ˌka-pə-ˈlē-nē 
: angel-hair pasta
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Why anyone would want to move there, and why a city should be shaped like a strand of capellini, is anyone’s guess. 
New York Times, 28 Jan. 2021 For Garten, the recipe’s biggest selling point is the capellini, which, according to her, takes only three minutes to cook. Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 30 Dec. 2020 The first dish out of the gate was a beauty: a rope of cold capellini bound in a hazelnut dressing and garnished with crisp sea asparagus, bits of preserved lemon, a whisper of nori and downy edible flowers. Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2020 By night, the café transitions to Le Tachinomi Desu, a standing-room-only bar with cold capellini and caviar small plates, to be paired with natural wines and premium sake and whiskey. Michaela Trimble, Vogue, 23 Jan. 2019 Scaloppine di Pollo Serves 2 1 pound capellini, cooked2 8-ounce chicken breasts, cut into thirdsFlour6 tablespoons butter, divided½ cup diced pancetta1 cup artichoke hearts1 cup sliced mushrooms1 tablespoon capersDredge the chicken in flour. Nancy Miller, The Courier-Journal, 5 June 2018
New York Times, 28 Jan. 2021 For Garten, the recipe’s biggest selling point is the capellini, which, according to her, takes only three minutes to cook. Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 30 Dec. 2020 The first dish out of the gate was a beauty: a rope of cold capellini bound in a hazelnut dressing and garnished with crisp sea asparagus, bits of preserved lemon, a whisper of nori and downy edible flowers. Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2020 By night, the café transitions to Le Tachinomi Desu, a standing-room-only bar with cold capellini and caviar small plates, to be paired with natural wines and premium sake and whiskey. Michaela Trimble, Vogue, 23 Jan. 2019 Scaloppine di Pollo Serves 2 1 pound capellini, cooked2 8-ounce chicken breasts, cut into thirdsFlour6 tablespoons butter, divided½ cup diced pancetta1 cup artichoke hearts1 cup sliced mushrooms1 tablespoon capersDredge the chicken in flour. Nancy Miller, The Courier-Journal, 5 June 2018 Word History
Etymology
Italian, plural of capellino, diminutive of capello hair, from Latin capillus
First Known Use
1950, in the meaning defined above