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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of central Italy northwest of Florence. It has been a textile center since the 1200s.
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- proper noun Province of
Tuscany ,Italy . - proper noun Capital of the province of Prato.
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Once again Prato brings his A-game .. thanks Adam, great find.
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In many ways Prato is a microcosm of the challenges facing Europe: an historic place with proud traditions, now threatened by new ways in a changing world.
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In recent months, tensions in Prato between Italian residents and the Chinese have spiked with accusations that the migrants aren't playing by the rules.
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"Today, the Chinese industry in Prato actually contains the entire supply chain - from buying the fabrics in China, importing them into Italy, cutting them, dyeing them, assembling the pieces and selling them directly to the retail outlets," Perrachi noted.
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This undated photo provided by the Center of Natural Sciences in Prato, Italy, Wednesday, June 11, 2008, shows a deer with a single horn in the center of its head.
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Financial journalist Silvia Perrachi has written about how Chinese immigrants have taken over industry in Prato.
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It was called the Prato, and by the shocking discrepancy between its name and appearance added to my dejection, for the one recalled and the other mocked memories of that green and sunlit plain in Padua, that dear Pra della Valle, upon whose grassy dimples looked the house of Aurelia, and to whose wandering winds
The Fool Errant Maurice Hewlett 1892
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Near the territory of Prato, which is ten miles distant from
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 04 (of 10), Filippino Lippi to Domenico Puligo Giorgio Vasari 1542
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In the year 1300, Niccola da Prato, Cardinal Legate of the Pope, being in Florence in order to accommodate the dissensions of the Florentines, caused him to make a convent for nuns in Prato, which is called S. Niccola from his name, and to restore in the same territory the Convent of S. Domenico, and so too that of Pistoia; in both the one and the other of which there are still seen the arms of the said Cardinal.
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 01 (of 10), Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi Giorgio Vasari 1542
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A more efficient energy, transport and communication system in an industrial area such as Prato, may require the introduction of microelectronics technology in all the stages of the Prato textile cycle.
Chapter 6 1984
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