serico
See also: sérico
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editserico (feminine serica, masculine plural serici, feminine plural seriche) (literary)
- made of silk; silky
- Synonym: di seta
- 1336–1374, Francesco Petrarca, “CCI — Mia ventura et Amor m’avean sí adorno”, in Il Canzoniere, lines 1–2; republished as Daniele Ponchiroli, editor, Turin: publ. Giulio Einaudi, 1964:
- Mia ventura et Amor m'avean sí adorno / d'un bello aurato et serico trapunto
- My luck and Love had thus adorned me / of a beautiful gold and silk embroidery
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edit- serico1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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editsēricō