pasta in the form of tubes, cut diagonally on the ends
penne in American English
(ˈpenei)
nounWord forms: plural-ne
a type of tubular pasta having diagonally cut ends
Word origin
[1970–75; ‹ It, pl. of penna pen, feather, quill]This word is first recorded in the period 1970–75. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Heimlich maneuver, New Age, postmodernism, stress test, urban legend