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Alcamo

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[ahl-kuh-moh, al-, ahl-kah-maw] / ˈɑl kəˌmoʊ, ˈæl-, ˈɑl kɑˌmɔ /

noun

  1. a city in NW Sicily, Italy, near the site of the ancient Greek settlement of Segesta.


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Almost a year ago, after years of negotiations, Dia bought the former Alcamo Marble building at 541 West 22nd Street in Chelsea for $11.5 million.

From New York Times • May 24, 2012

The Dictator went as far as Alcamo to meet the hero of the last glorious fight of Rome, whom he greeted with delight and affection.

From The Liberation of Italy by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn

Ciullo d' Alcamo, flourishing about 1190, is the only Italian-writing poet absolutely contemporaneous with the earlier and better trouvères, troubadours, and minnesingers; and he is also the only one who resembles them very closely.

From Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. II by Lee, Vernon

Between Ciullo d' Alcamo and his successors there is some gap of time, and a corresponding want of gradation.

From Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. II by Lee, Vernon

The "Relievo dei Cavalli" at Alcamo offers no relief for you!

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 by Various