Paduan
Americanadjective
noun
plural
PaduansExample Sentences
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He never completed his great study of the Paduan bronze sculptor Andrea Riccio, but his pioneering articles served as the basis for a major Riccio retrospective exhibition at the Frick Collection in 2008.
From The Guardian • Feb. 23, 2011
Two of the tales are recounted in dialect, one in Bergamasco and another in Paduan.
From The Guardian • May 14, 2010
He has ranged from comic ditties and Broadway torch ballads to songs in the rich, tuneful manner of Italian light opera, to match the Paduan setting of The Shrew.
From Time Magazine Archive
Paduan whom he calls "the greatest plunderer of them all."
From Time Magazine Archive
In the second half of the 1590s, his personal commitments had increased when he established a stable relationship with Marina Gamba, a local Paduan woman from a lower social class.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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