corvo
noun
a dry red or white wine of Sicily.
corvo
American
[kawr-voh]
/ ˈkɔr voʊ /
noun
Corvo
British
/ ˈkɔːvəʊ /
noun
Example Sentences
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Indeed, the adaptation to podcasting has gone better than either Ms. Cole or Mr. Corvo could have anticipated.
From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2022
The new restaurant is “basically the original Il Corvo with a bar,” said Easton, who plans to work closely with Eastern Washington farmers.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 20, 2021
A similar signal shows up in cores from Caldeirão Lake on the Azores’s Corvo Island dating to about 100 years later.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 3, 2021
Given that Magnus is a sponger, a con man, Catholic convert and gay, he comes across as a second cousin to that comparably fascinating outcast, Frederick Rolfe, the self-styled Baron Corvo.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 17, 2019
Some time after this he visited Flanders, and returning to the Azores by way of Lisbon, became the guest of D. Vilhena, who had received a grant of Flores and Corvo.
From The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea Vol. II by Zurara, Gomes Eannes de
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