Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the birds (a sort of wild goose) which, in Cyrano de Bergerac's “Comic History of the Moon” (1649), are represented as drawing thither the chariot of the Spanish adventurer Dominique Gonzales.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of wild goose, by a flock of which a virtuoso was fabled to be carried to the lunar world.
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Examples
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The 14,500-square-foot center will be a multimedia extrava ganza with high-tech gadgetry, including flight simulators and life-size soldier video games.
An Army of Fun: Video Game to Lure Recruits | Disinformation 2008
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During a musical performance by Brazilian teens, he decided to join in, grabbed a ganza, and started grooving to the beat.
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That this extrava - ganza claims to be (and to some extent is) based on
STYLE IN LITERATURE R. A. SAYCE 1968
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Lepanto Province for a copper ganza, the customary way of purchasing ganzas, and the following week another Bontoc man sold a carabao for money to another Lepanto Ilokano.
The Bontoc Igorot Albert Ernest Jenks 1911
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The ganza or brass money goes by weight, which they call a _biza_; and commonly this biza is worth, in our way of reckoning, about half a crown or somewhat less.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 Robert Kerr 1784
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It is needful to specify very precisely both the time of payment, and in what weight of ganzas they are to be paid, as an inexperienced person may be much imposed upon both in the weight and fineness of the _ganza_ money; for the weight rises and falls greatly from place to place, and he may be likewise deceived by false _ganzas_ or too much alloyed with lead.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 Robert Kerr 1784
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This _ganza_ money is reckoned by _byzas_, each _byza_ being 100 _ganzas_, and is worth about half a ducat of our money, more or less according as gold is cheap or dear.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 Robert Kerr 1784
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Such a political Demo-ganza would be hosted by an "A Team" including former Presidents Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Vice President Al Gore, Senator Barak Obama, Hilary Clinton and others.
Sealing the Deal 2006: What the Dems Must Do To Win Back the Congress 2006
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Thus after he had taken his leave of the vice-queen, he retired to Almada, without going to Bra - ganza-houee, or passin
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ViLLArViciosA, a fortified town of Portugal, in Alentejo, with an old caftle, and a palace, where th*; dukes of fira - ganza forraeriy refilled. la the iuburb is an ancient temple,, originally built to tlie honour oi 'Pi-ofei-pine.
qms commented on the word ganza
I looked into the tale of the ganza
(Not quite a research bonanza):
A goose most bizarre,
And too silly by far
For matter of more than a stanza.
June 18, 2014