presa
Americannoun
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prese
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of presa
1715–25; < Italian: literally, a taking up, feminine of preso, past participle of prendere to take < Latin prehendere to seize; see prehension
Example Sentences
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He said large, muscular dogs such as the cane corso and the presa canario could become the next status dogs.
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2023
Campo Grande sells a box of assorted cuts of pork: a hefty four-rib roast, a thick presa from the loin for roasting or grilling, and two prized shoulder sections, pluma and secreto.
From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2022
Will consumers pay $67.50 for a 1.8-pound package of Iberico presa?
From Washington Post ● Feb. 13, 2017
We arrived early and began by inspecting the programme— Carlo ottiene piena vittoria contro Marsilio— Fuga di costui e presa di Barcelona— Marfisa trova Bradamante che more fra le sue braccia.
From Diversions in Sicily by Henry Festing Jones
These will reveal themselves a ciascun’ alma presa e gentil cuore, and every reader will find them in such measure as he deserves.
From Dante: His Times and His Work by Arthur John Butler
"Yet shall there no restraynt Cause me to cese, Among this prese, For to encrese Youre goodly name."
From Shakespeare Jest-Books Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-Books Supposed to Have Been Used by Shakespeare by William Carew Hazlitt
"Buon Dio!" exclaims the learned Zefirino, "Buon Dio! le pietre prese per tanta gente di chiesa!"
From Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
Trumpettes blew in the prese, Lordys stond on the grese, 1165 Ladyes lay ouer and be-held.
From Torrent of Portyngale by Unknown
Make all yon prese to stonde; The formost monke, his lyfe and his deth Is closëd in my honde.
From Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series by Frank Sidgwick
And as I thrust the prese amonge, By froward chaunce my hood was gone; Yet for all that I stayd not longe, Tyll at the kynge bench I was come.
From A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum by Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas
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