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- proper noun A collection of 100
novellas by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio, probably begun in 1350 and finished in 1353.
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Meaning "ten days", coined from Ancient Greek δέκα (deka, "ten") and ἡμέρα (hēmerā, "day").
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