Friulian
Americannoun
noun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of Friulian
1875–80; Friuli region of Italy + -an
Example Sentences
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A few puffy clouds hung above Italy’s Friulian Mountains, to the south.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 11, 2016
That international feeling was enhanced when she sang in the Friulian dialect to honor an Italian Vancouverite who helped bring her and her Italian pianist, Glauco Venier, to town.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 23, 2014
Pasolini's earliest poems were written in Friulian dialect: his ambition was for Friulano-speaking peasant communities to become "historically aware"; he, Pasolini, would be the medium of their awareness.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 22, 2013
June 8—Fierce fighting is in progress at the Isonzo River; severe fighting also is going on in the Friulian sector.
From New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915 by Various
Among Italian folk-poets the Friulian is foremost as a lover of the greater heights; he turns to them habitually in his moments of poetic inspiration, and, as he says, their echoes repeat his sighs.
From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
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