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Contadino   Listen
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contadino  n.  An Italian farmer.





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... absolutely meeting over intensely bright fierce eyes. The nose descending straight from the brows, as in a statue of Hadrian's age. The mouth full-lipped, petulant, and passionate above a firm round chin. He was dressed in the shirt, white trousers, and loose white jacket of a contadino; but he did not move with a peasant's slouch, rather with the elasticity and alertness of an untamed panther. He told me that he was just about to join a cavalry regiment; and I could well imagine, when military dignity was added to that gait, how grandly he would go. ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete - Series I, II, and III • John Symonds
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Words linked to "Contadino" :   farmer, sodbuster, granger, husbandman


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