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ben trovato
[ ben truh-vah-toh; Italian ben traw-vah-taw ]
adjective
- appropriate and characteristic even if untrue; happily invented or discovered.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of ben trovato1
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Example Sentences
I can hardly help laughing at this myself; for, Se non e vero, ben Trovato!
Kwiatkowski told me a pretty story which se non vero is certainly ben trovato.
Here is a delightful story of the present Bishop of London for you, which is molto ben trovato, at any rate.
The story as related by the English friar is very characteristic of the age, and, si non e vero e ben trovato.
If it were not true it was at least, as the Italians have it, ben trovato, and it was wonderful how well it bore thinking of.
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