Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- A city of southern Italy on the Adriatic Sea southeast of Bari. It was an ancient center of trade with the eastern Mediterranean and an embarkation point for the Crusaders during the Middle Ages. Population: 90,200.
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- proper n. Province of Apulia, Italy.
- proper n. Town, port and capital of Brindisi.
- proper n. A drinking song.
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- n. a port city in southeastern Apulia in Italy; a center for the Crusades in the Middle Ages
Etymologies
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Examples
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He added that he expects to confirm the data with Italian air traffic controllers in Brindisi, on the other side of the Adriatic, on Saturday.
Richard Abruzzo And Carol Rymer-Davis Plummeted At 50 mph Before Disappearing
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The train that I intended to take for Brindisi is a weekly mail train that runs to accommodate the mails and not passengers.
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Thence they continued their journey down the Italian coast by land, as Richard had done by water, until at last they arrived at a place called Brindisi, which is on the coast of
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"Brindisi" -- here was some scrap of news from Brindisi.
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From Taranto it is a day's journey to Brindisi, which is on the sea coast.
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* You can hear Tibbett sing the "Brindisi" here, with Nicolas Massue as Cassio and Giovanni Paltrinieri as Roderigo.
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Anna Netrebko sings "Brindisi" with Andrea Bocelli alt 1
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I thought of Lucrezia Borgia's "Brindisi"; but that instantly went out of my mind.
In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters
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It was one of those musical evenings that picked up steam as it progressed, ending with a boisterous quartet, "Bella figlia dell'amore" from Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto and an audience-inclusive encore of the "Brindisi" from La Traviata, complete with glasses of bubbly for conductor and soloists.
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Over 30 members of the Opera Company of Philadelphia Chorus and principal cast members of LA TRAVIATA performed the famed "Brindisi" in the aisles of Reading Terminal
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