Tasso

[tas-oh; Italian tahs-saw]

noun

Tor·qua·to

[tawr-kwah-taw] /tɔrˈkwɑ tɔ/, 1544–95, Italian poet.

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Examples from the Web for tasso

Contemporary Examples of tasso

De Oliveira had good reports as a pupil at the Tasso da Silveira school, but he was mocked by fellow students.
Brazil's School Shooting: What Happened Inside
Dom Phillips
April 9, 2011

Historical Examples of tasso

The miseries of Tasso arose not only from the imagination and the heart.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327
Various
That Tasso had a cat we know because he wrote a sonnet to her.
Concerning Cats
Helen M. Winslow
Such, according to Tasso, was the spirit of the Swiss Crusaders.
The Counts of Gruyre
Mrs. Reginald de Koven
Maulear remembered the words he had written on the wall of Tasso's house.
The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851
Various
Tasso, at a later period, introduces the deities of heathendom.
The Superstitions of Witchcraft
Howard Williams

British Dictionary definitions for tasso

Tasso

noun

Torquato (torˈkwaːto). 1544–95, Italian poet, noted for his pastoral idyll Aminta (1573) and for Jerusalem Delivered (1581), dealing with the First Crusade

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