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Abruzzi

NOUN
  1. a mountainous region of central Italy on the Adriatic

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  • The son of an Italian "carabiniere" -- a member of the Italian paramilitary police -- Marchionne was born and raised in the impoverished central region of Abruzzi. Reuters: Top News
  • The piazza, a natural hippodrome of tall, stone buildings with the high peaks of the Abruzzi soaring up behind, has been laid with hundreds of tonnes of sand and planted with greenery to mark out a track round which 'cavaliere' -- the knights -- will race with lances raised at breakneck speeds. News - chicagotribune.com
  • Abruzzi watches Gus greet Philly Falzone with a hug.
  • Two years later, a 52-man Japanese expedition with 1,500 porters laid siege to K2, scaled the Abruzzi, and posted the second summit.
  • In the south, pasta bakes tend to be more tomato-based, like the Abruzzi dish with lamb or the famous timballo described so eloquently in Giuseppe di Lampedusa's novel The Leopard.
  • She had come to this country alone, at eighteen, a skinny little contadina from the mountains of Abruzzi, and was put to work a few days later in the garment district of Boston, before she knew more than a few English phrases. Knowing Jesse
  • Porfirio's father, Karl, who talked to the surgeons by phone from St. Marys, which is just north of Jacksonville, Fla., told the surgeon that the family hails from Abruzzi. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
  • Thus, in all imaginative countries, the brigand is a hero; even the assassin who shoots his victim from behind a hedge appeals to the fancy in Tipperary or on the Abruzzian hills. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
  • Porfirio's father, Karl, who talked to the surgeons by phone from St. Marys, which is just north of Jacksonville, Fla., told the surgeon that the family hails from Abruzzi. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
  • She took photographs for him in the uncharted region of the Abruzzi and in the new, mapless towns of Africa, in rebuilt Germany and where motorways now changed for ever the old roads of England. William Trevor | An Idyll in Winter
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