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Trasimeno

American  
[trah-zee-me-naw] / ˌtrɑ ziˈmɛ nɔ /

noun

  1. a lake in central Italy, in Umbria near Perugia: Romans defeated by Hannibal 217 b.c. About 50 sq. mi. (130 sq. km).


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In the center a German line around Lake Trasimeno was breached and the terraced town of Cortona, ancient headquarters of the Etruscans, was in Allied gun sights.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is the first identifiable landscape in Italian painting, a view of Lake Trasimeno as seen from Cortona.

From Time Magazine Archive

But "some mysterious taboo" held him back: in years of extensive travels, he got little closer to Rome than Trasimeno.

From Time Magazine Archive

The background stretches away into a charming distant landscape, in which is a lake, not unlike Trasimeno, and sloping hills, on which scenes of pastoral life are taking place.

From Luca Signorelli by Cruttwell, Maud

The next afternoon found them on their way, around Lake Trasimeno, to Perugia.

From Barbara's Heritage Young Americans Among the Old Italian Masters by Colby, Homer W.

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