Noun: pallone
Sample Sentences
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“Go and play pallone.”
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“I am a married man,” he answered, without raising his head. “I do not play games any more.” [1905, E. M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread:]
Nouns inflected like pallone
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian pallone (“large ball”), from palla (“ball”). Doublet of balloon. See: Italian Nouns '
pallone'.