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Genoa
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synonyms: la Superba ???
tags: [geography]
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Definition:A large Italian Mediterranean coastal city
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Blackadder: ...and in Genoa, 'tis now the fashion to pin a live frog to the shoulder braid, stand in a bucket and go "bibble" at passers by.
Queen: Oh, our Italian cousins!
BBC. Blackadder, season 2: Head
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on the third mission to Bologna where the flak from two hundred and twenty-four cannons had knocked out one of Orr's engines for the very last time and sent him down ditching into the sea between Genoa and La Spezia just before the brief thunderstorm broke.
Joseph Heller. Catch-22, p.331 (1961)
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Most of the children were shipped out of Marseilles, and about half of them drowned in shipwrecks. The other half got to North Africa where they were sold.
Through a misunderstanding, some children reported for duty at Genoa, where no slave ships were waiting.
Kurt Vonnegut. Slaughterhouse-Five (1968)
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in order to have the whole mail-coach reserved for them as far as Marseilles, where they would buy a carriage, and go on thence without stopping to Genoa.Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary.
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