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

  • noun An Italianism, especially a word or idiom borrowed from or suggestive of the Italian language.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An Italianism.

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

  • noun A phrase or idiom peculiar to the Italian language; to Italianism.
  • noun The use of Italics.

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

  • noun A phrase or idiom peculiar to the Italian language.
  • noun The use of italics.

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