citta
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of citta
From Sanskrit
Example Sentences
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They stand to the more purist kinds of geometrical abstraction as the plan of a hill town does to a Renaissance citta ideale.
From Time Magazine Archive
Condemned in absentia to death by burning, Dante for the last 20 years of his life wandered in exile from the "bella citta" he loved.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is recorded, that on the accession of his successor, Foscari, to the throne, “Si festeggio dalla citta uno anno intero:” “The city kept festival for a whole year.”
From The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) by Ruskin, John
"Erano gli anni della fruttifera Incarnazione del Figliuolo di Dio al numero pervenuti di mille trecento quarant'otto, quando nell' egregia citta di Fiorenza oltre ad ogni altra Italica bellissima, pervenna la mortifera pestilenza."
From Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
Bourmont is marching on Lisbon with 18,000 men, ‘regna il terror nella citta.’
From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. III by Greville, Charles
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