Pisan
Americannoun
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Pisans
plural
adjective
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Pisan pictured a city of women; Lincoln believed in union; King had a dream.
From The New Yorker ● May 29, 2017
The peacock dinner is suggested twice in Pound’s Pisan Cantos, which he wrote, accompanied only by his memories, decades later while imprisoned for treason in a six-foot-by-six-foot cage:
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 24, 2015
He wrote his acclaimed Pisan Cantos during his stay.
From BusinessWeek ● Jul. 25, 2013
He shook hands with Pisan, his assistant coach, accepted congratulations and went back to watching video.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2012
Her letters came to a Pisan bank; the bankers re-enclosed them in this elaborate way, and sent them to her by their own gilt-buttoned messenger.
From Dorothy and other Italian Stories by Constance Fenimore Woolson
Intruders have been leaving their footprints ever since: Phoenicians, Romans, Pisans, Catalans, billionaire yachtsmen, crabby and indolent writers.
From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2014
The request was ignored by Pisans, who complained that a reduced water supply would greatly inconvenience the townspeople and local industry in the middle of a hot summer.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Pisans, fearing the vengeance of the Guelphs now that Henry was dead, had accepted the lordship of Uguccione della Fagginola, imperial vicar in Genoa.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
Florentines marched against Pisa, and the Pisans submitted to their terms.
From Villani's Chronicle Being Selections from the First Nine Books of the Croniche Fiorentine of Giovanni Villani by Giovanni Villani
From this we may safely infer that the games were a primitive observance of the Eleians and Pisans, and first acquired their celebrity from the powerful concurrence of Sparta.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various
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