Pastichio

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A Greek dish made with cheese, chopped meat and pasta, resembling lasagna. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From Italian pasticcio (“hodge-podge”), from Vulgar Latin *pasticium, from *pastīcius (“of dough”), from Latin pasta (“dough, pastry cake, paste”), from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá, “barley porridge”), from παστός (pastós, “sprinkled with salt”). Doublet of pastiche.

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