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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A city of northern Italy southwest of Venice. In the early 13th century the Este family established a powerful principality here and made it a flourishing center of Renaissance learning and the arts.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See Andrea Ferrara.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A sword bearing the mark of one of the Ferrara family of Italy. These swords were highly esteemed in England and Scotland in the 16th and 17th centuries.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A sword bearing the mark of one of the Ferrara family of Italy, highly esteemed in England and Scotland in the 16th and 17th centuries.
  • proper noun Province of Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
  • proper noun City, archbishopric and capital of Ferrara.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a city in northern Italy

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  • "Perry perceiving his disaster, wheeled about, and now finding leisure to produce his weapon, returned upon his disarmed foe, brandishing his Ferrara, threatening to make him shorter by the head if he would not immediately crave quarter and yield."

    — Smollett, Peregrine Pickle

    January 29, 2022