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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An island of southern Italy in the Lipari Islands off northeast Sicily in the Tyrrhenian Sea. Its volcano, 924 m (3,031 ft) high, erupted violently in 1930, 2002, and 2003.
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- proper noun One of the
Aeolian Islands in theTyrrhenian Sea ; it has an activevolcano
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Examples
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The eruptions are so regular that the word Stromboli is now used to mean 'small explosion' and its shape means you can get remarkably close to the action - just 200m above the active crater!
TravelDailyNews.com 2010
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And in fact the final quarter of The Book of the Dead, our book that will be published May 31, is set in Florence and then on the island of Stromboli, which is an island off the coast of Sicily that has a live volcano on it.
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And in fact the final quarter of The Book of the Dead, our book that will be published May 31, is set in Florence and then on the island of Stromboli, which is an island off the coast of Sicily that has a live volcano on it.
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The island of Stromboli, which is always erupting from the northwest side, or the crater.
View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2006
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I am therefore of the same opinion relative to the specular iron of Stromboli, that is, that the vehement hcai A 'the fire deprived the lavas of this metal, by subliming it, which afterwards attached « j their surface, producing laminated crystals, more or less large, and more or less nume - rous, with those varieties which usually accompany crystallizations.
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Her dog friend is called Stromboli which is just the coolest name.
boss 2008
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"Stromboli," he said; "we shall be nearly through the Straits by breakfast-time."
The Devil Doctor Sax Rohmer 1921
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"Stromboli," he said; "we shall be nearly through the Straits by breakfast-time."
The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu Sax Rohmer 1921
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I decide to wait; to make an attack, meanwhile, upon old Petelia -- the "Stromboli" of my lady-friend at the Catanzaro Museum ....
Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910
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"Stromboli," replied the rickety little shepherd, dashing away from Hans and disappearing in the olive groves.
Voyage au centre de la terre. English Jules Verne 1866
hernesheir commented on the word Stromboli
Not a French word, but it sounds so lovely spoken with a French accent.
February 3, 2010
john commented on the word Stromboli
Thanks to Woody Guthrie as channeled by Billy Bragg and Wilco, this word will always remind me of Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman, Ingrid Bergman,
let's go make a picture.
On the island of Stromboli,
Ingrid Bergman.
February 3, 2010
bilby commented on the word Stromboli
Dai ragazzi, e' una parola italiana!
February 3, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word Stromboli
Yes--Ingrid Bergman. But also that part in the movie Wings of Desire where Damiel and the man dying from the motorcycle accident begin their list: "The fire on the cattle range. The potatoes in the ashes. The boathouse floating in the lake. The Southern Cross. The Far East. . . . The Great North. The Wild West. The Great Bear Lake. Tristan da Cunha. The Mississippi Delta. Stromboli. The old houses of Charlottenburg. Albert Camus. The morning light. The child's eyes. The swim in the waterfall. The spots of the first drops of rain. The sun. The bread and wine. Hopping. Easter. The veins of leaves. The blowing grass. The color of stones. . . ."
February 3, 2010
bilby commented on the word Stromboli
Ruzuzu knows too much.
February 3, 2010
hernesheir commented on the word Stromboli
You Wordnikies have taken my pulse, exactly. Ingrid Bergman. But also the voice of a more or less modern French (jazz) singer...let's see if we can identify the song in which Stromboli figures as a tagline.
February 3, 2010
hernesheir commented on the word Stromboli
I loved Wings of Desire and try to turn all sorts of like-minded people on to it. The portrayal of angels was so wonderful...
February 3, 2010
bilby commented on the word Stromboli
When I started university I had an enrolment problem. One of the faculties was being pig-headed so eventually I had to bring in the big guns: a student counsellor called Phil sorted them out with some stiff words.
Afterwards he said I 'owed him one' ... he then gave me two free tickets to Wings of Desire and told me to write a review for the student paper, 'The Star'. So I went to see it at the Valhalla (art-house cinema) with my just-fallen-in-infatuation-with girl Hilary. Afterwards we walked around the streets of inner-city Carlton in the rain pretending to be angels and looking cryptically at each other. Among other things Hil was a ballet dancer and beautifully light on her feet. Ah, dreamy days they were.
February 3, 2010
hernesheir commented on the word Stromboli
What a lovely scene, bilby. A fantasy for us all.
February 3, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word Stromboli
I was a bit younger when I saw it, and I think it warped my view of the world--the first album I ever bought for myself was by Crime and the City Solution, I still wear long monochromatic coats, and I was absolutely elated when my mother once told me that she'd thought of naming me Solveig.
February 3, 2010
hernesheir commented on the word Stromboli
Be it movie title, American "Italian" food, or volcano, Stromboli seems to evoke lovely or haunting mental images beyond its initial sense, and it trips rather nicely off the tongue, whatever one's accent.
February 4, 2010
bilby commented on the word Stromboli
Stromboli.
February 5, 2010