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Brewer's: Shoes
Scarpa's shoes for curing club feet, etc. Devised by Antonio Scarpa, an Italian anatomist. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894ShoemakersShoe the Wild Colt A B…Brewer's: Voltaic Battery
An apparatus for accumulating electricity. So called from Volta, the Italian, who first contrived it. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894VoltaireVole A B C…Brewer's: Young Italy
A league of Italian refugees, who associated themselves with the French republican party, called the Charbonnerie Démocratique (q.v.). It was organised at Marseilles by Mazzini, and its…Brewer's: Alarm
An outcry made to give notice of danger. (Italian, all' arme, “to arms;” French, alarme.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Alarum BellAlarcon A B C D E F…Brewer's: Alto relievo
Italian for “high relief.” A term used in sculpture for figures in wood, stone, marble, etc., so cut as to project at least one-half from the tablet. It should be rilievo (3 syl.).…Brewer's: Ambuscade
(3 syl.). is the Italian imboscata (concealed in a wood). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894AmedamnéeAmbry A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R…Brewer's: Amiral
or Ammiral An early form of the word “admiral.” (French, amiral; Italian, ammiraglio.) (See Admiral.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894AmletAminte A B C D…Brewer's: And
The character “&” is a monogram of et (and), made in Italian type, & Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894AndironsAncile A B C D E F G H I J K…Brewer's: Bambino
A picture or image of the infant Jesus, swaddled (Italian, bambino, a little boy). The most celebrated is that in the church of Sts. Maria, in the Ara Cli of Rome. Source: Dictionary of…Brewer's: Bambocciades
(4 syl.). Pictures of grotesque scenes in low life, such as country wakes, penny weddings, and so on. They are so called from the Italian word bamboccio (a cripple), a nickname given to…Trending
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