ATTDA 730-733 wordwork

Glenn Scheper glenn_scheper at earthlink.net
Wed Feb 6 08:55:32 CST 2008


1. Using google with define: prefix.

Fondamente è un comune francese di 303 abitanti situato nel dipartimento dell'Aveyron nella regione del Midi-Pirenei. 
it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fondamente

Il termine principe (femminile principessa), dal latino princeps, indica un membro dell'alta aristocrazia, ma con molte differenze di significato. ...
it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principessa


2. Using http://ets.freetranslation.com/
to translate Italian to English:

rio: brook

principessa: princess

fondamente: deep

camerieri: waiters

levante: it raises


However, levant is the area, or the wind, of the middle east...

LEVANTE

The Spanish and most widely used term for an east or northeast wind occurring along the coast and inland from southern France to the Straits of ...
frozone.itsc.uah.edu:8080/LEAD_Glossary/l.jsp


LEVANT

a heavy morocco often used in bookbinding 
the former name for the geographical area of the eastern Mediterranean that is now occupied by Lebanon and Syria and Israel 
run off without paying a debt 
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

The Levant (IPA: /lə'vænt/) is an imprecise geographical term historically referring to a large area in the Middle East south of the Taurus Mountains, bounded by the Mediterranean Sea on the west, and by the northern Arabian Desert and Upper Mesopotamia to the east. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levant

A name for the land around the eastern Mediterranean Sea, through Asia Minor, to what is now Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine and Egypt.
www.fsmitha.com/defini.html

To leave hurriedly or in secret to avoid unpaid debts. So you why see I capitalize Levant.
roycroftbooks.net/definitions.htm

A mountainous region paralleling the eastern shore of the Mediterranean, including parts of the countries of Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, and Israel.
highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/007299634x/student_view0/chapter6/key_terms.html


CHEQUY

or checky used of a field covered with small squares of alternate tinctures
www.burkes-peerage.net/articles/heraldry_c.aspx

A pattern of checks like a chessboard.
home.olemiss.edu/~tjray/medieval/chivarlic.htm


PALAZZO

a fortress-like, three-storied home during the Italian Renaissance, usually featuring a rusticated stone exterior
library.thinkquest.org/3786/glossary.html

Palazzo is more broadly used in Italian than its English equivalent "palace". In Italy, a palazzo is a grand building of some architectural ambition that is the headquarters of a family of some renown or of an institution, or even what the English call a "block of flats". 
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palazzo


BASILICA

21 definitions, concuring roughly...

The public hall that formed a gathering point in every Roman city, usually with a rectangular plan ending in as apse and divided by a double file of columns. It was the inspiration for the early Christian churches.
www.archiseek.com/guides/glossary/b.html


piazza: square


quadri: managers

Quadri è un comune di 942 abitanti in provincia di Chieti. 
it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadri

così vengono definiti i gruppi nei quali si inseriscono, tramite un programma, le CF in una filtroriduzione. Quadri di tipo and: tutte le condizioni devono risultare verificate. Quadri di tipo or: è prevista la verifica delle condizioni di uno solo dei vari quadri or. ...
www.toto1x2.it/glossario.htm

which, translated, is as abstruse:

So they come defined the groups in which introduce themselves, means a program, the CF in a filtroriduzione.  Managers of type and: all the conditions should result verified.  Managers of type or: the check of the conditions is expected of one alone of the varied managers or.  


D and D? Dungeons and Dragons? Deception... Dance... Display... Diversion...?


Everything seems to be a comune.

Cavour is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 40 km southwest of Turin. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 5,481 and an area of 49.1 km2.All demographics and other statistics: Italian statistical institute Istat. 
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavour (comune)


He chose a Cavour cigar, black as a stick of licorice, but threw it away as soon as he had taken two whiffs, handing the bill he had received for the ...
--http://books.google.com/books?id=NcYWg7a0JMoC&pg=PA385&lpg=PA385&dq=cavour+cigar&source=web&ots=wHj1qD7lj3&sig=D2YPXXrBlUps5rtPLW2Gvyox-Ac
   The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, ... - Google Books Result

http://vintage.artehouse.com/perl/options.pl?imageID=1924&productTypeID=1
Frossards Cavour Cigar Poster

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Glenn Scheper
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