Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Italy, a countryman or peasant; a rustic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun an Italian farmer.
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- noun an Italian farmer
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Examples
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Italy, ask your contadino, that is, the next country-fellow you meet, some question, and presently he ballots you an answer with a nod, which is affirmative; or a shake with his head, which is the negative box; or
The Commonwealth of Oceana James Harrington 1644
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The 'contadino' is middle-aged & like the rest of the peasants -- that is to say, brown, handsome, good-natured, courteous, & entirely independent without making any offensive show of it.
Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899
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The 'contadino' is middle-aged & like the rest of the peasants -- that is to say, brown, handsome, good-natured, courteous, & entirely independent without making any offensive show of it.
Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume II, Part 2: 1886-1900 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899
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The 'contadino' brought up their trunks from the station, and Clemens wrote:
Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume II, Part 2: 1886-1900 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899
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The 'contadino' brought up their trunks from the station, and Clemens wrote:
Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899
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The ‘contadino’ brought up their trunks from the station, and Clemens wrote:
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The ‘contadino’ is middle-aged & like the rest of the peasants — that is to say, brown, handsome, good-natured, courteous, & entirely independent without making any offensive show of it.
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Naples, I was informed by a contadino, of whom I had asked my way, that
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The girl was not there; but by the gate into the olive-yard, where there was a lean-to shed for tools, they found her sitting on a cask, whittling a piece of wood and talking to a curly-headed little contadino.
Tales from Many Sources Vol. V Various
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Every _contadino_ has a pack in his pocket, with the flavor of the soil upon it.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 Various
bilby commented on the word contadino
Female equivalent is contadina.
September 8, 2008