Definitions

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  • noun Mud in its therapeutic uses.

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  • noun Mud from the thermal springs at Battaglia in Italy, used to treat certain medical complaints such as gout and rheumatism.

Etymologies

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From Italian fango, from Catalan fang

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Examples

  • One much-favored therapy is the mud pack, otherwise known as the fango, which has given rise to a little epithet for the joys of such taxpayerpaid cures: “Fango in the morning and tango in the evening.”

    THE COMMANDING HEIGHTS DANIEL YERGIN 1998

  • The Solfatara itself is a trough surrounded by hilly mounds; its smooth, saucepan-like bottom, covered with whitish pumice-sand, is pitted with craters containing violently boiling and fuming mud - the so-called fango, famous for its healing properties.

    Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs

  • BAMcin matek's fango-riffic series, "Bela Lugosi's Dead, Vampires Live Forever," continues with a weekend double-feature made in drive-in heaven.

    Camp and a Little Tramp 2010

  • Mi spiace correggerti ma credo che all'età di 5 anni scrivesti una relazione sulle sculture di fango che facevamo in giardino:

    The return of the emigrant, Part I: The Good Ra 2009

  • The effect is even more intense if a burning torch is moved about over one of the boiling fango holes.

    Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs

  • We recall the fact that the whole Solfatara phenomenon had its origin in a flame being swayed over one of the fango holes.

    Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs

  • In fact all mineral waters and the so-called curarive muds like fango are slightly radioactive.

    The War Terror 1908

  • It rains every day, and this is almost the first time that we have seen the sun since our arrival, it rains continually, and one cannot step out without being up to the ankles in fango; and then, again, there is not a house to be found.

    The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula George Henry Borrow 1842

  • It rains every day, and this is almost the first time that we have seen the sun since our arrival, it rains continually, and one cannot step out without being up to the ankles in fango; and then, again, there is not a house to be found.

    The Bible in Spain 1712

  • Ademas al prinipio es una sensacion un poco asquerosa porque todo el suelo es de fango, que te llega hasta la rodilla aachhhh!

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

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