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Vercelli

American  
[ver-chel-ee, ver-, ver-chel-lee] / vɛrˈtʃɛl i, vər-, vɛrˈtʃɛl li /

noun

  1. a city in NW Italy, W of Milan.


Vercelli British  
/ verˈtʃɛlli /

noun

  1. a city in NW Italy, in Piedmont: an ancient Ligurian and later Roman city; has an outstanding library of manuscripts (notably the Codex Vercellensis, dating from the 10th century). Pop: 45 132 (2001)

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F1 driver Valtteri Bottas supported the vehicle’s tuning at the Balocco Proving Ground in the Vercelli province of Italy.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 31, 2023

Pellielo’s parents were rice farmers in Vercelli, a tree-lined town of 46,000 about 50 miles west of Milan that is Europe’s leading rice producer.

From New York Times • May 22, 2021

Donata Vercelli, professor of cellular and molecular medicine at the University of Arizona, also studies how these ancient microbes affect our health.

From Washington Post • Sep. 27, 2019

Nearby is Vercelli, a sun-baked, slightly run-down town set amid seemingly endless acres of bright-green rice paddies and Italy’s risotto capital.

From New York Times • Jun. 26, 2014

Before the first quarter of the century was finished there were universities at Padua, at Naples, and at Vercelli.

From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)