Montefiascone

[mawn-te-fyahs-kaw-ne]

noun

1. a town in central Italy: wine-growing area.

Example Sentences

When the Catharan Bishop Paternon fled, his position was successively held by three others, Torsello, Brunnetto, and Giacopo da Montefiascone.

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The election lasted more than three long months, on account of the two contending factions, headed by Cardinal Herzan, on the part of Austria, and by the celebrated Maury, then Bishop of Montefiascone in the Papal States.

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He put up his mule, and drank of Montefiascone till he died.

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Montefiascone.—We have stopped for the night at the hotel of this place, so renowned for its wine—the remnant of a bottle of which stands, at this moment, twinkling between me and my French companions.

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Montefiascone is built on the river of one of these ravines.

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