Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A Neapolitan coin, equal to about of a United States cent.
Examples
“The waiter told us that cavallo was an option for that nights meal, and when I translated it for Alexandra, our horse-loving daughter, she started to cry.”
“Il miglior utilizzo di teste di cavallo dai tempi de Il Padrino.”
“You can tuck into Trigger in some of the best restaurants in the city, including my favorite place, La Zucca, which serves a salad with sfilacci di cavallo (smoked horse meat).”
“La storia vede un musicista che ruba uno spartito e fugge a cavallo di una mano gigante!”
“The “boi-cavallo,” the riding bull (not ox) of the interior, which costs about £4, is never used in these fashionable localities.”
“From the ceiling, and all around the doorway, hang wreaths and necklaces of sausages, or groups of the long gourd-like _cacio di cavallo_, twined about with box, or netted wire baskets filled with Easter eggs, or great bunches of white candles gathered together at the wicks.”
“[121] Per essere queste romane salvatiche et male apte a cavallo.”
Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day
“For a shilling an hour one can go to ride, or, as the Portuguese phrase perhaps circuitously expresses it, go to walk on horseback on a donkey, -- _dar um passeio a cavallo n'um burro_.”
“I brettinoresi determinarono di alzare in piazza una colonna con intorno tanti anelli di ferro, quanto le nobili famiglie di quel castello, e chi fosse arrivato ed avesse legato il cavallo ad uno de 'predetti anelli, doveva esser ospite della famiglia, che indicava l' anello cui il cavallo era attaccato.”
“The cavallo Sardo _par excellence_, such as the higher classes ride, is”
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