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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A Neapolitan coin, equal to about of a United States cent.

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Examples

  • The waiter told us that cavallo was an option for that nights meal, and when I translated it for Alexandra, our horse-loving daughter, she started to cry.

    The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009

  • The waiter told us that cavallo was an option for that nights meal, and when I translated it for Alexandra, our horse-loving daughter, she started to cry.

    The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009

  • The waiter told us that cavallo was an option for that nights meal, and when I translated it for Alexandra, our horse-loving daughter, she started to cry.

    The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009

  • The waiter told us that cavallo was an option for that nights meal, and when I translated it for Alexandra, our horse-loving daughter, she started to cry.

    The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009

  • Il miglior utilizzo di teste di cavallo dai tempi de Il Padrino.

    No Fat Clips!!! : Phon°noir – My Paperhouse On Fire 2008

  • La storia vede un musicista che ruba uno spartito e fugge a cavallo di una mano gigante!

    No Fat Clips!!! : MURENA – Export Tripoli 2006

  • You can tuck into Trigger in some of the best restaurants in the city, including my favorite place, La Zucca, which serves a salad with sfilacci di cavallo (smoked horse meat).

    Veniceblog: 2004

  • You can tuck into Trigger in some of the best restaurants in the city, including my favorite place, La Zucca, which serves a salad with sfilacci di cavallo (smoked horse meat).

    Soup, Salad, And Secretariat 2004

  • The “boi-cavallo,” the riding bull (not ox) of the interior, which costs about £4, is never used in these fashionable localities.

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

  • From the ceiling, and all around the doorway, hang wreaths and necklaces of sausages, or groups of the long gourd-like _cacio di cavallo_, twined about with box, or netted wire baskets filled with Easter eggs, or great bunches of white candles gathered together at the wicks.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 Various

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