casa

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  • She desired me to think myself patrona del casa, and offered me all the services in her power, to wait on me where I pleased, ;c. They have the finest palace in Venice. —  Lady Mary Wortley Montague
  • Unless the man himself is in town and holed up at his Buenos Aires casa, a three-story colonial townhouse known as —  globorati
  • Soraya, this year's Spanish representative, participated yesterday afternoon at the radio programme Bienvenido a casa, a ... —  esctoday.com | news
  • Congratulation to jmm for winning against casa, now he is in the league of the lightweights. —  MVN
  • JMM face looked very bad getting hit by slow casa. casa was right up there till the k-out. —  MVN
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  1. Latin, a cottage, hut, cabin, shed, Middle Latin also a house in general (later Italian Spanish Portuguese casa, a house, = (as if from L. neuter *casum) F. chez, in preposition chez, abbreviation of en chez, = Old Spanish en cas = Italian in casa or a casa, in the house (of), at (my, his, etc.) house, with); prob. akin to castrum, a castle, fort, plural a camp (see castrum, chester), and to cassis, a helmet; orig. a cover or shelter; cf. Sanskrit √ chhad, cover, cover over. Hence ult. casale, cassock, casula, chasuble, etc.
 

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