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Panettone Living nativity scene in Milazzo Christmas market in Merano Zampognari in Molise during the Christmas period. Christmas in Italy (Italian: Natale) is one of the country's major holidays and begins on 8 December, with the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, the day on which traditionally the Christmas tree is mounted and ends on 6 January, of the following year with the Epiphany ...
from Daku, meaning a member of a class of criminals who engage in organized robbery and murder. Hence also dacoity (banditry) Dekko (UK slang for 'a look') from دیکھو देखो Dekho, the imperative 'look', (دیکھو देखो) meaning look at or study something. Dinghy from Dinghi, small boat, wherry-boat Dungaree
Another backronym is that wop stands for "working on pavement", based on a stereotype that Italian immigrants and Italian-American men typically do manual labor such as road-building. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] Turning acronyms into words did not become common practice until after World War II, accelerating along with the growth of the US space-program and ...
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Romanesco (Italian pronunciation: [romaˈnesko]) is one of the Central Italian dialects spoken in the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, especially in the core city. It is linguistically close to Tuscan and Standard Italian , with some notable differences from these two.
Here’s the thing about ageism. It’s not always malicious, but it hurts. Is there anyone who would say that we don’t want everyone, no matter what their age, to participate fully and to the ...
The word bimbo derives from the Italian bimbo, [4] a masculine-gender term that means "little or baby boy" or "young (male) child" (the feminine form of the Italian word is bimba). Use of this term began in the United States as early as 1919, and was a slang word used to describe an unintelligent [ 5 ] or brutish [ 6 ] man.