Vercelli

American

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

noun

a city in NW Italy, W of Milan.

Vercelli British

/ verˈtʃɛlli /

noun

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

Nino Cerruti, 91, the dashing Italian fashion designer and textile scion who modernized menswear with his soft, unstructured tailoring and dressed generations of movie and television stars on screen and off, died Jan. 15 in Vercelli, Italy.

From Seattle Times

But his mother and her 11 brothers were also hunters, shooting pheasant and rabbit in Vercelli’s Piedmont region.

From New York Times

VERCELLI, Italy — Sit with Giovanni Pellielo for a while and the stories start to pile up.

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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.

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