Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Family of Venetian painters, including Jacopo (1400?–1470?), most of whose works have been lost, and his two sons, Gentile (1429?–1507) and Giovanni (1430?–1516). Giovanni, the most illustrious of the three, profoundly influenced the Venetian school of painting with his interest in light and color. His works include Saint Francis in Ecstasy.
- Vincenzo,Italian composer whose operas include La Sonnambula and Norma (both 1831).
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- proper noun A
surname . - proper noun Vincenzo Bellini, Italian opera composer
- noun a
cocktail made fromProsecco andpeach juice
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun Italian composer of operas (1801-1835)
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Examples
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(Bellini is one of my favorites in this regard — how he can hang a theatrically effective musical flow on even his most ludicrous libretti.)
Pretty Woman Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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He was listening for the Italian's footsteps, but he never came, and one day Mr. Harry looked up from his newspaper and said, "Laura, Bellini is dead."
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“She said it is not true and she wasn’t in Bellini,” her spokeswoman says.
Christina Aguilera Is Ten Weeks Pregnant, Announcement Coming Soon 2007
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The Bellini is my cocktail of choice, first enjoyed at Harry's Bar by me in the late 50s.
Jay Weston: Buon Giorno MR C! Cipriani Comes to L.A., and I Have My Best Italian Meal in Years Jay Weston 2011
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The Bellini is my cocktail of choice, first enjoyed at Harry's Bar by me in the late 50s.
Jay Weston: Buon Giorno MR C! Cipriani Comes to L.A., and I Have My Best Italian Meal in Years Jay Weston 2011
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With a name like Bellini you think frothy, sweet, and peach colored.
Home Swell Home Cynthia Rowley 2002
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With a name like Bellini you think frothy, sweet, and peach colored.
Home Swell Home Cynthia Rowley 2002
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With a name like Bellini you think frothy, sweet, and peach colored.
Home Swell Home Cynthia Rowley 2002
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The classic "champagne" cocktail known as the Bellini was invented around the corner by Giuseppe Cipriani, the founder of
Crosscut 2010
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Pople's exhibition, titled Bellini 21c, includes a work called Altarpiece in which the figures in the famous Bellini altarpiece in Venice are obscured by an image of a woman being penetrated from behind and having oral sex.
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