presa
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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
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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
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 Butler, Arthur John
During the three years he absented himself from home, he learned to play at sheepshanks in Madrid, at rentoy in the public-houses of Toledo, and at presa y pinta in the barbacans of Seville.
From The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
"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 Hazlitt, William Carew
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 Sidgwick, Frank
Dante elsewhere expressed his abhorrence of the Donation:— Ahi Constantin, di quanto mal fu matre, Non la tua conversion, ma quella dote Che da te prese il primo ricco patre!
From The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest by Fiske, John
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 Nicolas, Nicholas Harris, Sir
Trumpettes blew in the prese, Lordys stond on the grese, 1165 Ladyes lay ouer and be-held.
From Torrent of Portyngale by Unknown
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