Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A money of account in. Malta, equal to about one twelfth of an English penny.
- n. A subsidiary coin of Naples and the two Sicilies, the hundredth part of a ducat, equal to eighty hundredths of a United States cent.
Examples
“Lusmila, my neighbor, friend and kitchen guru tells me sal de grano from the coast is the absolute best.”
“Atole de grano is a good supper choice, any time of the year.”
“The middle-sized ones (which are the best) sell at four for a grano, which is at the rate of ten for”
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 551, June 9, 1832
“I notice a lot of short day onions named "grano" or "granex," followed by a number.”
“_supposed_, at all events -- whereas, when, in Naples, a man asks leave to black your shoe in the dusty street 'purely for the honour of serving your Excellency' you laugh and would be sorry to find yourself without a 'grano' or two -- (six of which, about, make a farthing) -- Now do you not see!”
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846
“It doesn't mean Murkowski can't make it happen in the next 34 days but it does mean the polling data released over the last 24 hours should be taken cum grano salis.”
The Washington Post: Lisa Murkowski surges in Alaska (or does she?)
“It's the plant that's used to make atole de grano.”
“At night, if I'm in la Plaza Chica, I vastly enjoy atole de grano.”
“In addition, women often dish up pozole, menudo, atole, ponche, champurrado, tamales, atole de grano (a Michoacán specialty), and any number of other delicacies, but this normally happens on the sidewalk outside their homes and most often para llevar -- as takeout -- and usually at night.”
“We've taken multiple kilos of grano entero home to our freezer in Sonora.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘grano’.
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The Pasta Master
My favourite is potato
gnocchi,interesting that lists
devoted to pasta exclusively
missed pasta puttanesca,those who
really textually mine dictionaries
would not miss...manicotti, spaggers, stelline, spaghettini, spag, linguine, fettuccine, penne, rigatoni, mezzani, zita, spaghetti and 391 more...
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Pasta la Vista
Because John's and colleen's and Lampbane's lists are their own, and they're such pasta hogs I have to make sure I get some for myself. :)
Includes noodles and other noodle-based items...zituane, rotini, rigati, marziani, salamini, fagioletti, eliche grandi, eliche, elefante, rotellini, rotelli, ziti and 296 more...
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Australian
words not found in other
dictionaries,these are from Macquarie
Dictionary and not playable in
scrabbleabdul, abdulled, abdulling, abi, abiu, ablactate, absinthial, absinthian, absoluter, acalypha, acanthodian, acaroids and 5128 more...
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