Trinacria
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Souvenirs: Pottery from the town of Caltagirone; a ceramic three-legged Trinacria, the symbol of Sicily; a handmade marionette; traditional Sicilian marzipan.
From Washington Post • Jan. 29, 2020
No Sicilian needed to be told that his three-cornered Trinacria, 75 miles from Africa across the shallow Straits of Pantelleria, and two miles from Europe across the deep Straits of Messina, possessed strategic significance.*
From Time Magazine Archive
She holds her adversary as if annihilated; such adversary lying, all the while, like some buried Enceladus; who, to gain the smallest freedom, must stir a whole Trinacria with it Aetnas.
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
Presently they had loaded their trunks and hand baggage, and incidentally themselves, into the boat of the Hotel Trinacria which came alongside in charge of a sleepy porter.
From Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad by Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)
As his wearied frame He shifts, Trinacria, trembling at the cry Moans through her shores, and smoke involves the sky.
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax
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