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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An island of southern Italy in the Tyrrhenian Sea at the entrance to the Bay of Naples. It is a tourist center and health resort noted for its warm mineral springs.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
ischium .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a volcanic island (part of Campania) in the Tyrrhenian Sea at the north end of the Bay of Naples
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Examples
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(I think of James Schuyler, who was W.H. Auden’s personal secretary in Ischia; he once said of Auden’s work, If that’s poetry, I guess I’ll never be a poet.
Nowhere’s Vernacular : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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This was an island not far from the coast of Campania, which was also called Ischia and Ænaria.
The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations 43 BC-18? Ovid 1847
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On the afternoon of that day, the lugger was carried close in with the northwest side of Ischia, which island she rounded at dusk, seemingly intending to anchor at
The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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I remember when I was young going for holidays every year with my parents to a small island called Ischia in the Bay of Naples, next to Capri.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2009
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Argentine season ends next month following a string of poor results.document. write ( 'Ischia's team, the most popular in the country,
WN.com - Articles related to U.S. Ally Mahmoud Abbas in Serious Trouble 2009
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Pernille Pedersen/Trunk Archive Ice cream shop in the Village of San'Angelo on the island of Ischia
Ciao, Bella 2011
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Off Duty Italy Special Pernille Pedersen Photographer Pernille Pedersen snapped these iPhone photos on a recent trip across Italy, with stops in Rome, Perugia, Sicily and on the island of Ischia.
Sweet Nothings 2011
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Off Duty Italy Special Pernille Pedersen Photographer Pernille Pedersen snapped these iPhone photos on a recent trip across Italy, with stops in Rome, Perugia, Sicily and on the island of Ischia.
The World's Best Food Wines Lettie Teague 2011
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Photographer Pernille Pedersen snapped these iPhone photos on a recent trip across Italy, with stops in Rome, Perugia, Sicily and on the island of Ischia.
Ciao, Bella 2011
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Pernille Pedersen/Trunk Archive Arriving by ferry to the island of Ischia
Ciao, Bella 2011
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