ziti

ziti
/zee"tee/, n. Italian Cookery.
a tubular pasta in short pieces, similar to rigatoni, often baked in a tomato sauce.
Also, zitti.
[1925-30; < It zite, ziti, pl. of ZITA, ZITO, of uncert. orig.]

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