Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A needlepoint stitch that produces zigzag lines.
- noun A pattern similar to one created by this stitch.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The building which serves as the headquarters of the armed force in an Italian town. The bargello at Florence is now the national museum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a needlepoint stitch that produces zigzag lines.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun needlepoint embroidery stitch that produces zigzag lines
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The 'bargello' is a cordially-detested person all over Italy, if you except Modena, where the weak nobility make much of the 'bargello', and do justice to his excellent table.
The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761
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"Worse, he's the 'bargello', and you must see that a stranger cannot be received into good society here if he goes to such places as that."
Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 27: Expelled from Spain Giacomo Casanova 1761
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"Worse, he's the 'bargello', and you must see that a stranger cannot be received into good society here if he goes to such places as that."
The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761
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The 'bargello' is a cordially-detested person all over Italy, if you except Modena, where the weak nobility make much of the 'bargello', and do justice to his excellent table.
Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 27: Expelled from Spain Giacomo Casanova 1761
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So morning warms to broad noon, and hunger makes it dinner-time, and the young kinsmen who have strolled abroad come home, one of them with his hand bound up in a white rag that has drops of blood on it, for he has picked a quarrel in the street and steel has been out, as usual, though no one has been killed, because the 'bargello' and his men were in sight, down there near the Orsini's theatre-fortress.
Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome 1881
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Fritz and I were at a yarn shop near Portsmouth, picking colors for his next bargello project.
DesignerBlog Will 2008
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Fritz and I were at a yarn shop near Portsmouth, picking colors for his next bargello project.
Archive 2008-09-01 Will 2008
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The night before, Fritz had gave me my birthday gifts: a reproduction brass Victorian-era turn bell for my front door, a t-shirt that says "Check out my Blog" and gives the URL, and a tea cozy he'd made for my new tea pot in a handsome bargello pattern done in several shades of blue and white.
Archive 2006-06-01 Will 2006
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The night before, Fritz had gave me my birthday gifts: a reproduction brass Victorian-era turn bell for my front door, a t-shirt that says "Check out my Blog" and gives the URL, and a tea cozy he'd made for my new tea pot in a handsome bargello pattern done in several shades of blue and white.
Thanks for the birthday wishes! Will 2006
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She did lacework on the pillow; tatting; crochet; needlepoint; bargello; petit-point; shadow work; cross-stitch; and crewel embroidery.
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