before 1000; Middle English delle, Old English dell; akin to dale
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The work features Punchinello, the hook-nosed, humpbacked clowns who were some of the stock characters taken from the Commedia dell' Arte - an early form of professional theatre.
From BBC • Oct. 11, 2021
The Great Compromiser proposed that a Comitato per la Posizione dell' Orologio�Committee for Determining the Clock's Position�be formed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sulphurous lava, 2,500� F. hot, more than 30 feet deep and 200 yards wide, rolled over the funicular that had carried many a tourist to the Valle dell' Inferno near the crater's edge.
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It is a commedia dell' arte script with occasional touches of Machiavelli.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is not possible, however, for the critical historian to explain the several steps whereby the Commedia dell' Arte arrived at maturity.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Gozzi, Carlo
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