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  2. Street performance - Wikipedia

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    The term busking was first noted in the English language around the middle 1860s in Great Britain. The verb to busk, from the word busker, comes from the Spanish root word buscar, with the meaning "to seek". [3] The Spanish word buscar in turn evolved from the Indo-European word *bhudh-skō ("to win, conquer"). [4]

  3. Tuscan dialect - Wikipedia

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    codesto (literary form in Standard Italian) is a pronoun which specifically identifies an object far from the speaker but near the listener (corresponding in meaning to Latin iste). costì or costà is a locative adverb that refers to a place far from the speaker but near the listener.

  4. Buskin - Wikipedia

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    A buskin is a knee- or calf-length boot made of leather or cloth, enclosed by material, and laced, from above the toes to the top of the boot, and open across the toes. [ 1 ] The word buskin, only recorded in English since 1503 meaning "half boot", is of unknown origin, perhaps from Old French brousequin (in modern French brodequin ) or ...

  5. Italian grammar - Wikipedia

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    Italian grammar is the body of rules describing the properties of the Italian language. Italian words can be divided into the following lexical categories : articles, nouns, adjectives, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.

  6. AP Italian Language and Culture - Wikipedia

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    Advanced Placement (AP) Italian Language and Culture (also known as AP Italian Language or AP Italian) is a course offered by the American College Board as part of the Advanced Placement Program. It is intended to give students a thorough background in the Italian language and Italian culture equivalent to a college -level course.

  7. Italian profanity - Wikipedia

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    Italian profanity (bestemmia, pl. bestemmie, when referred to religious topics; parolaccia, pl. parolacce, when not) are profanities that are blasphemous or inflammatory in the Italian language. The Italian language is a language with a large set of inflammatory terms and phrases, almost all of which originate from the several dialects and ...

  8. Sock and buskin - Wikipedia

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    The sock and buskin, like the comedy and tragedy masks, are associated with two Greek Muses, Melpomene and Thalia.Melpomene, the Muse of tragedy, is often depicted wearing buskins and holding the mask of tragedy, while Thalia, the Muse of comedy, is often depicted wearing the comic's socks and holding the mask of comedy.

  9. Wikipedia:Language learning centre/Italian word list - Wikipedia

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    Non esce rafforzato - It does not come out strengthened; non funziona - doesn't work; non ha prestato - did not lend; non le vede - does not seem them; nonna - grandmother; nonno - grandfather; nonostante - despite; non so da - I don't know from; nonstante/malgrado - despite; non staremo - we will not stay; non è così - it is not so