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Pavia

[ pah-vee-ah ]

noun

  1. a city in N Italy, S of Milan: Charles V captured Francis I here.


Pavia

/ ˈpɑːvɪə /

noun

  1. a town in N Italy, in Lombardy: noted for its Roman and medieval remains, including the tomb of St Augustine. Pop: 71 214 (2001) Latin nameTicinum
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Bishop Ennodius of Pavia spoke of the “filth” that Theoderic “washed away from the greater part of Italy,” leaving Rome, as it emerged from “the ashes,” “living again.”

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At Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital, where Pavia is director of hospital epidemiology, his team is 100 percent vaccinated, but not everyone else is.

Pavia’s team continues to wear masks and eye protection, and takes the same precautions with patients.

Pavia said he hasn’t had a real haircut in a year “and it shows.”

Although Christopher's father was only a poor wool comber, he managed to send his son to school at Pavia (pah-vea).

Turner was acquainted with it: "Ryse groweth plentuously in watery myddowes between Myllane and Pavia."

He had been a prisoner at Pavia with the King, and his life had been spent in the camp and the court.

Pavia, thirty odd kilometres south of Milan, was ever a rival of the greater city of to-day.

Pavias Certosa, on the road from Milan to Pavia, is its chief architectural splendour.

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