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  • adjective Of or pertaining to Genoa (Genova)
  • noun Native or inhabitant of Genoa

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Examples

  • Matteo Beltrami, a young Genoan, conducted ably, although some of the quicksilver ensemble passages that go a mile a minute occasionally ran off track.

    Spoleto Festival U.S.A.: From Moral Challenge to Frothy Comedy - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • Matteo Beltrami, a young Genoan, conducted ably, although some of the quicksilver ensemble passages that go a mile a minute occasionally ran off track.

    Spoleto Festival U.S.A.: From Moral Challenge to Frothy Comedy - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • Other details of Louise's life come out in the novel, subtly transformed: the Italian banker with whom Louise spent the last years of her life becomes Marsilio, the Genoan business partner of Jollande's father; Clément Marot, the court poet some sources claim was young Louise's lover and whose poetry appears in the novel becomes Gabriel Orland, the published poet who infiltrates the printing shop as a spy for the queen.

    An Historico-Fictional Hybrid Julianne Douglas 2008

  • Other details of Louise's life come out in the novel, subtly transformed: the Italian banker with whom Louise spent the last years of her life becomes Marsilio, the Genoan business partner of Jollande's father; Clément Marot, the court poet some sources claim was young Louise's lover and whose poetry appears in the novel becomes Gabriel Orland, the published poet who infiltrates the printing shop as a spy for the queen.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Julianne Douglas 2008

  • Napoleon just happened to be the cream of the cream, and his nationality Corsica being Italian, well, okay, Genoan, until it's purchase by France in 1768 made it easy for him to snap up Italy early on.

    Blowback James Killus 2008

  • A small fleet of Genoan ships fled from Caffa making stops at Pera, Constantinople, Messina (Sicily), Genoa and Marseille.

    A Plague Upon Your House « So Many Books 2005

  • Give an alcoholic Genoan with shrapnel in his thigh four minutes and you've got yourself serviceable men's regular.

    joegood Diary Entry joegood 2003

  • The crown authorized the African slave trade under its monopoly, giving permission to Flemish, German, Dutch, Genoan, and Portuguese merchants to engage in it.

    2. The Caribbean and the Isthmus, 1499-1531 2001

  • As is known, the [word indistinct] of the great Genoan first cast anchor at the shores of Haiti and Cuba, and his journey lasted 3 months.

    GORBACHEV SPEAKS TO ANPP 1989

  • Such were the ladies of Cosford toward whom Nigel Loring rode that night with doublet of Genoan velvet and the new white feather in his cap.

    Sir Nigel Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1906

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