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Examples
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That is the _cucullo_, which Mr. Hazard, in his book on Cuba, calls a "bright peripatetic candle-bearer, by whose brilliant light one can not only walk, but even read."
Cuba, Old and New 1893
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Italum quam Britannum, marem quam foeminam, mitratum quam coronatum, togatum quam armatum, cucullatum hominem quam sine cucullo virum: sed ilium cujus pacatior, civilior, fidelior et utilior est conversatio diligit. '
Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction John Addington Symonds 1866
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It should be a warm and still evening; and then with a fire crackling merrily at the prow, you may launch forth like a cucullo into the night.
Excursions Henry David Thoreau 1839
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Quin, virtute mea junctum est diadema cucullo, Dum mihi regnanti patuit Gesperia. "
Castilian Days John Hay 1870
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