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noun (used with a singular or plural verb)
- small cases of pasta, often square, stuffed with a filling, usually of meat or cheese, and often served with a tomato sauce.
noun
- small squares of pasta containing a savoury mixture of meat, cheese, etc
1610s, from Middle English raffyolys, also rafyols (late 14c.). The word probably was re-borrowed several times, most recently in 1841, from Italian ravioli, a dialectal plural of raviolo, a diminutive of an unidentified noun, perhaps of rava “turnip.”