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  • proper noun Province of Piedmont, Italy.
  • proper noun Town and capital of Biella.

Etymologies

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From Italian Biella.

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Examples

  • Designers turn to factories here in the Biella region of northern Italy for the highest-quality suiting textiles — cashmere, silk, linen, and wools including Loro Piana's vicuña and Ferla's baby alpaca.

    In Italy's Mills, a New Spin Emerges Christina Binkley 2010

  • Designers turn to factories here in the Biella region of northern Italy for the highest-quality suiting textiles — cashmere, silk, linen, and wools including Loro Piana's vicuña and Ferla's baby alpaca.

    In Italy's Mills, a New Spin Emerges Christina Binkley 2010

  • Designers turn to factories here in the Biella region of northern Italy for the highest-quality suiting textiles — cashmere, silk, linen, and wools including Loro Piana's vicuña and Ferla's baby alpaca.

    In Italy's Mills, a New Spin Emerges Christina Binkley 2010

  • Like all the Vittoria Cycling Shoes, also 1976 is 100% made in Biella, Italy.

    BSNYC Product Review: Vittoria 1976 Cycling Shoe BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • Like all the Vittoria Cycling Shoes, also 1976 is 100% made in Biella, Italy.

    Archive 2009-04-01 BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • My pal Biella Coleman is a geek anthropologist whose recently awarded PhD was given for a thesis on nerd culture, with special emphasis on free and open source projects.

    Boing Boing: September 18, 2005 - September 24, 2005 Archives 2005

  • My friends Biella and Mako have written a good, short academic paper on how it is that "Free and Open Source Software" can be seen as tactically advantageous to big corporations, Starbucks-smashing anti-globalists, and liberal commons-oriented IP wonks.

    Boing Boing: June 27, 2004 - July 3, 2004 Archives 2004

  • My friend Biella, a tireless EFF volunteer who's also finishing a PhD in anthropology, studying hacker culture, has posted a really gnarly paper that she presented at the Digital Genres conference.

    Boing Boing: May 25, 2003 - May 31, 2003 Archives 2003

  • There is another one in Bar Kuba (ph), in the Biella (ph), on the side of the borders between Iraq and Iran.

    CNN Transcript Mar 29, 2003 2003

  • Lucky Luciano When fashion designer Luciano Barbera comes to New York from his native Biella, Italy, at the foot of the Italian Alps, he checks into a suite at the Pierre hotel on Fifth Avenue and then walks around the corner to Barneys to see how his $3,500 cashmere-and-wool-blend suits are selling.

    Why Viagra Could Be Good For Endangered Species 1998

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