Noun: bragia
Gender: f
Hyphenation: brà‧gia
| Singular f | bragia |
| Plural f | bragie; brage |
Sample Sentences
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Caron dimonio, con occhi di bragia
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loro accennando, tutte le raccoglie;
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batte col remo qualunque s'adagia. (Charon the demon, with eyes of ember, by signaling to them [the souls of the damned], gathers them all; he hits with the oar any one [of them] who rests.) [1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto III”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 109–111; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:]
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[…] All’un de’ lati
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crepitar s’odon le fiammanti brage (On one side, you can hear the flaming embers crackle) [1790s, Giuseppe Parini, Notte [Night]; collected in Opere dell’abate Giuseppe Parini, Venice: Giacomo Storti, 1803, page 34:]
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