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Trinacria

American  
[trih-ney-kree-uh, -nak-ree-uh, trahy-] / trɪˈneɪ kri ə, -ˈnæk ri ə, traɪ- /

noun

  1. an ancient name of Sicily.


Trinacria British  
/ traɪ-, trɪˈneɪkrɪə /

noun

  1. the Latin name for Sicily

"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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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

Came from Trinacria two champions bold, Young Helymus and Panopes, well-tried In woodland craft, and followers of old Acestes; came full many a youth beside, Whose fame shines dimly, or whose name hath died.

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax

From the strait they passed to the island of Trinacria, where they found grazing the cattle of the Sun.

From Authors of Greece by Lumb, T. W.

It was anciently called Trinacria, from its triangular shape, and is about six hundred miles in circumference.

From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 by Various

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