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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- A city of northeast Italy west of Venice. Founded by Ligurians c. first century B.C., it became a free city in A.D. 1164 and passed to Austria in 1797. Vicenza joined the kingdom of Italy in 1866. Population: 114,000.
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- From Italian Vicenza. (Wiktionary)
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“I can not recall the maker as the hazard with importing a bike like this (they are everywhere in Vicenza, Italy) is that in the USA people will stalk your bike and steal it.”
“In Italy this past Saturday, in a place called Vicenza (Vicenza is approximately 60 km west of Venice and 200 km east of Milan), some 100,000 people hit the streets in protest of the planned expansion of a US military base.”
“They were rather troublous times, and not to be recalled here in all their circumstance; but I think it due to Vicenza, which is now little spoken of, even in Italy, and is scarcely known in America, where her straw-braid is bought for that of Leghorn, to remind the reader that the city was for a long time a republic of very independent and warlike stomach.”
“Against a foe such as Vicenza, however, Tuck stayed on the floor.”
“Other locations, such as Vicenza, Italy, and the United Kingdom, will see a four-point drop.”
“This week Robertson is heading to Vicenza, Italy, where QVC airs three days of live jewelry shows starting Friday June 3, 6/5c.”
QVC Favorite Lisa Robertson Hits the Road for an Italian Job
“When the Academy of Vicenza needed a theatre in 1579, the Italian architect Andrea Palladio designed it on a classical model drawn from Vitruvius.”
“Zamperla, a big amusement outfit based in Vicenza, recently opened Scream Zone, an addition to Luna Park, the 19-ride kiddie park it launched last year.”
“Five years later, Antonio Salviati came to Venice from Vicenza where he practiced law to open a factory dedicated to production of traditional Murano glass.”
“Born in Gary, Indiana, in 1955, Gus joined the Army in 1977, and served in the 1st Ranger Battalion, an elite infantry unit; a rapid-deployment force based in Vicenza, Italy; and the 101st Airborne Division.”
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