Italian spaghetti again

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:13 AM -0500 2/18/09, Herb Stahlke wrote:
>Cooks.com has several recipes named "Italian spaghetti with meat
>sauce" that describe them as served separately, but they sound as if
>they are using "Italian spaghetti" just to refer to the pasta.
>
>Herb
>
Retronym?  Or non-restrictive fixed epithet, à la
"rosy-fingered dawn" or "wine-dark sea"?  Hard to
know.

LH

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