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Trieze is their favourite game: uno, due, tre, quatro, cinque, fante, cavallo are eternally repeated; the apartments echoed no other sound.
Dreams Waking Thoughts and Incidents Beckford, William 1891
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Ten lire to the man (_fante_) who came from Florence.
The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti John Addington Symonds 1866
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Trieze is their favourite game: uno, due, tre, quatro, cinque, fante, cavallo are eternally repeated; the apartments echoed no other sound.
Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents William Beckford 1801
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She sells fante kenkey, which is one of the favorite foods enjoyed by many Ghanaians because it supplies carbohydrate components in diets.
Kiva Loans 2009
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Early in the enfuing year he removed into the Loweftoffe, of twenty-four guns, and was fhortl'y afterwards ordered to the Weft Indies, where he died in the courfe of the year 1765, having retained the fante command till the time of his deceafe.
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La Reine de la Grande Bretagne eft ici en meilleure fante qu'elle n'a eu depuis lohg - terns, affligee de la mort de Madame Demby. % La cour fera encore huit a dix jours en cette ville, puis doit aller a Chantilly, Compiegne,
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Nous remarquoiis dans les v%6taux trois ou quatre principaux phSnomenes, leur crbiflance, leur fante, leurs amours, leur reproduction; et deux efpeces de vie: celle qui les fait poufifer, fe nourrir et s'etendre, qui nous parait purement vegitab/e: celle qui les fait aimer, connu --
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a small Book, intitled Spaccio della Bestia triom fante, [1] bore in a late Auction.
The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700
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a youth, foot-soldier: L. infntem INFANT n. 1 For the development of the It. infante cf. the apocopated form fante 'a man or woman servant or attendant; also, a footman or soldier seruing on foot; also the knaue or varlet at cards '
Army Rumour Service 2010
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a youth, foot-soldier: L. infntem INFANT n. 1 For the development of the It. infante cf. the apocopated form fante 'a man or woman servant or attendant; also, a footman or soldier seruing on foot; also the knaue or varlet at cards '
Army Rumour Service 2010
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