Did you perchance mean paella?
Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A genus of taxodont paleoconch pelecypods, found in the Devonian rocks.
Examples
“Mr. Croker censures the poet for applying the word puella to a lady in”
“In the picture you can see a couple of long and narrow Bulgarica shells near the center and a couple of white Albinaria puella to the right.”
“The fine distinction between demittere and dejicere caput are worthy of a glossary, while Pathica puella, puera, putus, pullipremo pusio, pygiaca sacra, quadrupes, scarabæus and smerdalius explain themselves.”
“You can see 2 clausiliids, Albinaria puella and Bulgarica denticulata, Cantareus aspersus, Metafruticicola redtenbacheri and the flat Lindholmiola lens.”
“A virgin, as the poet holds, lasciva et petulans puella virgo, is like a flower, a rose withered on a sudden.”
“Luctui dies indicebatur cum liberi nascantur, cum frater abit, amicus ab hospite captivus domum redeat, puella desponsetur.”
“Interdiu oculi, et aures occupatae distrahunt animum, at noctu solus jactor, ad auroram somnus paulum misertus, nec tamen ex animo puella abiit, sed omnia mihi de Leucippe somnia erant.”
“And Baldus the lawyer scoffs on, quum scholaris, inquit, loquitur cum puella, non praesumitur ei dicere, Pater noster, when a scholar talks with a maid, or another man's wife in private, it is presumed he saith not a pater noster.”
“Note 62: Molinier, 130 (Astrucus): "si inveniretur puer vel puella, occideretur"; 131 (Frossetus): "fuit acordatum quod interficeretur unus puer.”
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
“Note 107: Molinier, 133: "Item dixit quod multum refrenatur dolor et tristitia cordis ipsius, propter miracula que Deus facit pro ipsa puella." back”
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
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