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- proper noun The historical places named
Venice within NorthernItaly , i.e. the current Italian regions ofVenezia Tridentina-Sud Tirol/Alto Adige, Venezia Euganea, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, and the current provinces ofBergamo ,Brescia ,Cremona (i.e. Venezia Orobica), andMantua .
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Examples
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David kept his face straight, then grinned as their hostess seated them in a private booth beneath a wall tapestry of Venices Canal Grande in muted colors.
The After Wife Lexi Davis 2009
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David kept his face straight, then grinned as their hostess seated them in a private booth beneath a wall tapestry of Venices Canal Grande in muted colors.
The After Wife Lexi Davis 2009
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The fact is, Rezzable is creating Venices on the grid now.
Rezzable Productions: The slippery slope of turning art into a revenue stream Bettina Tizzy 2008
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Romes, Venices, and Parises, I would write a book on modern marriages made under the influence of the Christian system, and
A Marriage Contract 2007
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I have been to the other so called Venices; Leningrad, Amsterdam and Venice Beach California, but they are like comparing a Cessna with the Concorde.
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Murjek's only claim to fame was that it hosted the one hundred and seventy-first known duplicate of Venice, and one of only three Venices rendered entirely in white marble.
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006
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Venices set in the heart of the greater, when, moored to the banks by hanging stages decked with crimson satin and Persian carpets, they bore their freight of ladies in cherry-red brocade and green damask close under the balconies incrusted with many-coloured marbles from which other ladies leaned to gaze at them, in gowns with black sleeves slashed with white, stitched with pearls or bordered with lace.
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Venices of Tenochtitlán and Tlatelolco, linked by causeways, has been sucked dry, and rivers have turned into underground sewers.
History Moving North 1997
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Formerly it hovered about shores, and built its Tyres, Venices, Amsterdams, and
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Thus the American map bristles with Berlins, Bremens, Hamburgs, Warsaws and Leipzigs, and is beginning to show Stockholms, Venices, Belgrades and Christianias.
Chapter 10. Proper Names in America. 3. Geographical Names Henry Louis 1921
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