rifacimento
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of rifacimento
1765–75; < Italian, derivative of rifare to make over, equivalent to ri- re- + fare (≪ Latin facere to do 1 ) + -mento -ment
Example Sentences
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It is not a rifacimento of compliments; such is not the style with which I am saluted by the Duke of Doze and the Earl of Leatherdale!
From Vivian Grey by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
The second of these books was a mere rifacimento of the first; and, fortunately for what remained of his reputation, Mr. Robert Ward has made no third attempt.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 397, November 7, 1829 by Various
This rifacimento of Arion's story is not mere mythological twaddle.
From Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. by Hardenberg, Friedrich von
There is certainly a rifacimento of some kind or other; which should denote the head to have been twice painted.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
The curious discrepancies between the Trattato della Famiglia as written by Alberti273 and as ascribed to Pandolfini can only be explained upon the hypothesis of such rifacimento.
From Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots by Symonds, John Addington
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