nicchia

Let us now go to Italian, and look at the word _nicchia_.

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_piccola_, we have _piccola nicchia_, "a small task, or trifling service to be performed."

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_meanings_ of the expressions _piccola nicchia_ and _pique-nique_; but it remains to show how the words themselves may be identical.

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(subsequent to Boccacio) will bear me out in my statement of the frequency of contraction of words in familiar use: the plays, particularly, show it, from the dialogues in Machiavelli or Goldoni to the libretto of a modern opera; so much as to render it very probable that _piccola nicchia_ might stand as _picc 'nicc'_, just as we ourselves have been in the habit of degrading _scandalum magnatum_ into

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