Bergamask
See also: bergamask
English
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editEtymology
editFrom the Italian bergamasco (“from Bergamo”), itself from German Bergheim (“mountain home”).
Adjective
editBergamask (not comparable)
- Of or characteristic of Bergamo, Italy.
- c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- "Will it please you to see the epilogue, or to hear a Bergomask dance between two of our company?"
Noun
editBergamask (plural Bergamasks)