Pisan
Americannoun
plural
Pisansadjective
Example Sentences
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Pisan pictured a city of women; Lincoln believed in union; King had a dream.
From The New Yorker • May 29, 2017
The peacock dinner is suggested twice in Pound’s Pisan Cantos, which he wrote, accompanied only by his memories, decades later while imprisoned for treason in a six-foot-by-six-foot cage:
From The New Yorker • Feb. 24, 2015
He wrote his acclaimed Pisan Cantos during his stay.
From BusinessWeek • Jul. 25, 2013
“He thought of this in 1970,” said Mike Pisan, a longtime assistant.
From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2012
Rusticiano was a Pisan who had been a compiler of French romances and accordingly Polo's story was first told in French prose.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
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