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Falieri

American  
[fah-lye-ree] / fɑˈlyɛ ri /
Italian Faliero

noun

  1. Maríno 1278?–1355, Venetian army commander: doge of Venice 1354–55.


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All labour had ceased; the hum of trade was no longer heard; all Venice, in thousands of boats and gondolas, was gone out to meet the much-lauded Falieri.

From Weird Tales, Vol. II. by Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus)

Completely overmastered by furious rage, and wild with jealousy, Falieri shouted in a loud and commanding tone that Steno was to be at once removed from the balcony.

From Weird Tales, Vol. II. by Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus)

Annunziata had to put on her most gorgeous robes of state and pass, with Falieri, escorted by the Signoria, and attended by guards and pages of honour, across the crowded Piazza di San Marco.

From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm

Falieri arrived in England in 1528, and the general parts of the Report cover the intervening period.

From The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII by Froude, J.A.

Falieri, writing from London and reporting what he heard in society, said that “by English law females were excluded from the throne.”

From The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII by Froude, J.A.