bowtie pasta

1. 1.

   pasta shaped with scalloped edges and pinched in the middle, suggestive of a bow tie

   Synonymsfarfalle

   Broaderpasta

Questions about bowtie pasta

What does bowtie pasta mean?

bowtie pasta means "pasta shaped with scalloped edges and pinched in the middle, suggestive of a bow tie".

What is another word for bowtie pasta?

Close synonyms include farfalle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bowtie pasta a common word?

bowtie pasta is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.