bargello

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The next day it was duly brought to our inn and handed over to Betty As Sir B---- M---- had placed the case in my hands I went to the bargello, an important person at Rome, and an expeditious officer when he sees a case clearly and feels sure that the plaintiffs do not mind spending their money.

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  1. noun A needlepoint stitch that produces zigzag lines.

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  • Among the pillows in the home fashions line of New York-based ceramicist Jonathan Adler are needlepoints in classic bargello —  Berks county news
  • I judged that the bargello, having failed in his project, was now reduced to guesswork, and I was strengthened in that view of the case when the gate-keeper of the palace told me, without my asking any question, as I came in, that an arrest had been attempted during the night, and had not succeeded. —  The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova
  • As the order to stop searching the palace was given immediately after the introduction of the abbe to the cardinal, it is easy enough to suppose that this ecclesiastic is no other than the young girl missed by the police, who took refuge in the palace in which she must have passed the whole night I suppose," said I, "that his eminence will give her up to-day, if not to the bargello, at least to the Vicar-General No, not even to the Pope himself," answered Gama. —  The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova
  • I cried, "send for the bargello and have him away to prison I dressed myself hastily, and as I was going out to see M. de R the bargello met me, and asked me on what charge I gave the man into custody You will hear that at M. de R----'s, where I shall await you I must now explain my anger. —  The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova
  • I shall try to make a match between him and Fortuna's sister; he is a young man of the greatest talents The marchioness thought my idea an excellent one, but soon after I heard that Coltellini was dead The 'bargello' is a cordially-detested person all over Italy, if you except Modena, where the weak nobility make much of the 'bargello', and do justice to his excellent table. —  The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova
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  1. After the Bargello, a museum in Florence, Italy, which contains chairs upholstered in fabric worked in this stitch.

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/bɑrˈdʒɛlloʊ/
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