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The strummolo or spinning top, entered into the figurative Neapolitan language, giving rise to a series of idiomatic sayings.. One common Neapolitan expression, typically said with exasperation, is o spavo è curto e 'o strummolo è a tiriteppola: which literally means the twine is short and the spinning top swerves from all sides, said to illustrate an entangled and irreparable combination of ...
Draughts board in Italian draughts. Italian draughts (Italian: Dama italiana) is a variant of the draughts family played mainly in Italy and Northern Africa. It is a two-handed game played on a board consisting of sixty-four squares, thirty-two white and thirty-two black. There are twenty-four pieces: twelve white and twelve black.
Coffee (from Italian caffè, from Turkish kahveh, and Arabic qahwah, perhaps from Kaffa region of Ethiopia, a home of the plant) [25] Espresso (from espresso 'expressed') Fava; Frascati; Fusilli (Italian: fusillo, pl. fusilli; a derivative form of the word fuso, meaning 'spindle') Gelatine (from Italian gelatina through French)
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Briscola (Italian:; Lombard: brìscula; Sicilian: brìscula; Neapolitan: brìscula) is one of Italy's most popular games, together with Scopa and Tressette.A little-changed descendant of Brusquembille, the ancestor of briscan and bezique, [1] Briscola is a Mediterranean trick-taking ace–ten card game for two to six players, played with a standard Italian 40-card deck.
By the end of the 16th century, this order became extinct. In Milan, the World was the highest, followed by the Angel. This spread to Switzerland and France during the Italian Wars, becoming famous as the "Tarot of Marseilles". [11] [12] The earliest known appearance of the word "Tarocho" as the new name for the game is in Brescia around 1502 ...
Italian Damone is a two-player abstract strategy board game from Italy.It belongs to the draughts (checkers) family, and it is specifically a diagonal checkers variant. Each player's pieces are initially placed on two opposite corners of the board and move towards the opposite corner with the possibility of promotion for most of its pieces.