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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation Italian
- abbreviation Italy
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_Sabe_, in O.F.; _saba_, Ital., an inspissated juice or decoction.
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Mabillon (Iter Ital., 217) tells us that he saw one at the monastery of Bobbio made of gilded leather, and one is shown to this day in the church of San Nazario at Milan which is enameled on the outside and silver gilt within.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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The word comes both in meaning and form from Ital., _toccare_.
Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries 1900
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Among modern languages, we have, -- Span., _margarita_; Ital., _margarita_ and _maugherita_; Fr., _marguerite_, but used only in the proverb, "Il ne faut pas jeter les marguerites devant les pourceaux."
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(Ital., _città_), a city, and _polite_, from the Greek [Greek: polis] (_polis_), a city; because cities are the first to become civilized, or _civil_, and polite, or _polished_ (Latin, _polire_).
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Ital., vol.i. ch. v.] chosen, one by the inhabitants of each of the principal islands.
Stones of Venice [introductions] John Ruskin 1859
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Ital., (tom.iii. p. 486 -- 568.)] [Footnote 85: See the vth crusade, and the siege of Damietta, in Jacobus
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Ital., (tom.iii. p. 486 -- 568.)] [Footnote 85: See the vth crusade, and the siege of Damietta, in Jacobus
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Ital.,) both of the ixth century, translate and approve the Greek text of Theophanes.] [Footnote 32: With some minute difference, the most learned critics,
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765
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