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- noun A type of simplified
Gothic script used primarily in continental Europe during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
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Examples
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"You may go alone, if you like; but I will not leave this place until I have the certainty, not only that I shall not be sent to the 'bastarda', but also that I shall have every satisfaction from the knave whom the general ought to send to the galleys."
The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761
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"You may go alone, if you like; but I will not leave this place until I have the certainty, not only that I shall not be sent to the 'bastarda', but also that I shall have every satisfaction from the knave whom the general ought to send to the galleys."
Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 03: Military Career Giacomo Casanova 1761
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I had, as a matter of course, to engross all conversation, and to give the fullest particulars of all that had taken place from the moment I received the order to place myself under arrest up to the time of my release from the 'bastarda'.
Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 03: Military Career Giacomo Casanova 1761
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I had, as a matter of course, to engross all conversation, and to give the fullest particulars of all that had taken place from the moment I received the order to place myself under arrest up to the time of my release from the 'bastarda'.
The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761
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Valentini's music stands out for its use of the "viola bastarda" (a small bass viol) and for its clever handling of meantone tuning -- a system in which A sharp and B flat are different pitches, making some interesting tonal effects possible.
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The red one is titled Medicina Rossa and the blue one is called Sequence verdastra/bluastra/bastarda.
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“You may go alone, if you like; but I will not leave this place until I have the certainty, not only that I shall not be sent to the ‘bastarda’, but also that I shall have every satisfaction from the knave whom the general ought to send to the galleys.”
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“I have orders to deliver your person to M. Foscari, on board the bastarda.”
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M. Foscari, the commander of the bastarda, treated me very badly.
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I had, as a matter of course, to engross all conversation, and to give the fullest particulars of all that had taken place from the moment I received the order to place myself under arrest up to the time of my release from the ‘bastarda’.
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