Pisan
Americannoun
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Pisans
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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
It is probable that he knew Chaucer, with whom Deschamps maintained a poetical correspondence; there is nothing to show that he ever made the acquaintance of Christine de Pisan.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various
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
As the war continued the Pisans suffered more and more.
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe
The house still stands in the old quarter in which Marco Polo was imprisoned after the defeat of the Pisans at the battle of Curzola, when he was taken captive.
From Cathedral Cities of Italy by William Wiehe Collins
The cathedral was begun in 1063, the year following the brilliant capture of Palermo by the Pisans, when they returned in triumph with immense spoils.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various
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