contadina
English
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editcontadina (plural contadinas or contadine)
- An Italian peasant woman.
- 1903, Henry James, The Ambassadors[1]:
- The mellowest lamplight and the easiest chair had been placed at his disposal by Baptiste—subtlest of servants; the novel half uncut, the novel lemon-coloured and tender, with the ivory knife athwart it like a dagger in a contadina's hair, had been pushed within the soft circle—a circle which, for some reason, affected Strether as softer still after the same Baptiste had remarked that, in the absence of a further need of anything by Monsieur, he would betake himself to bed.
Italian
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editcontadina
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editcontadina f (plural contadine, diminutive contadinèlla or contadinétta or contadinòtta, pejorative contadinàccia)
- female equivalent of contadino
- (dance) the name of a particular dance, danced in a circle by only men
- (music) the music that accompanies that dance
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