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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“I got really irritated with all the amateur crime podcasts,” said David Corvo, the senior executive producer of “Dateline.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2022
It’s “basically the original Il Corvo with a bar,” the chef said.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 30, 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
The fable of Il Corvo, extracted from a Neapolitan story-book, Cunto delle cunte, trattenemiento pe le piccierelle, and treated by me in the tone of lofty tragedy, wrought the miracle.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second by Count Carlo Gozzi
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