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Tessin

American  
[te-san, te-seen] / tɛˈsɛ̃, tɛˈsin /

noun

  1. French and German name of Ticino.


Tessin British  
/ tɛˈsiːn /

noun

  1. the German name for Ticino

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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“There is a lot of rhetoric about small-caps being dead. But it’s not the case that the sequoias always outgrow the saplings,” says Chris Tessin, founder of Acuitas Investments, a firm specializing in small-caps.

From Barron's Dec. 12, 2025

Inside, there are acres of reddish brown Tessin marble.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sidney Tessin, 10, excitedly tells how her class dissected walnuts and discussed the ways vascular and nonvascular plants differ.

From Time Magazine Archive

These little works will be conveyed to you by the surgeon of Count de Tessin, when he returns home.

From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by William MacGillivray

But Tessin insisted on the founding of a bishopric of its own, while the Federal Council wished to join it to the bishopric of Chur.

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by J. H. Kurtz

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