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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A celebrated collection of tales, supposed to be related in ten days; -- written in the 14th century, by Boccaccio, an Italian.
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Examples
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That was the case for the original Decameron (1350s), the Heptameron (1550s, dubbed the French decameron) and lastly, the Pentameron (1630s).
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That was the case for the original Decameron (1350s), the Heptameron (1550s, dubbed the French decameron) and lastly, the Pentameron (1630s).
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That was the case for the original Decameron (1350s), the Heptameron (1550s, dubbed the French decameron) and lastly, the Pentameron (1630s).
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The decameron containing an hundred pleasant nouels.
The Library of William Congreve William Congreve 1699
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The prospect outside ought to be very dark, and rife with peril, to induce a man to resign himself deliberately to another decameron here. [
Border and Bastille 1851
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