Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The car of war, on which the standard was borne into battle, peculiar to the Italian republics of the middle ages.
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Examples
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Under Archbishop Heribert (101845) the carroccio (arc of municipal patriotism) was set up; expansion in the Lombard plain began (reduction of Lodi, Como, Pavia).
4. Milan 2001
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Heribert introduced the famous carroccio as the military insignia of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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Here was the banner of Milan, mounted on a triumphal car (_carroccio_) and guarded by picked burgesses, who had sworn to defend their trust to the death.
Medieval Europe 1901
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The _carroccio_ of the city, on which the standard of Padua floated, and which had led the burghers to many a bloody battle, was sent out to meet him at Monselice, and he entered the gates in triumph.
Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots John Addington Symonds 1866
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