gondoliering

Venice introduced a gondoliering course in 2007 after centuries during which the trade was handed down from father to son.

After centuries, Venice gets female gondolier 2009

Venice introduced a gondoliering course in 2007 after centuries during which the trade was handed down from father to son.

Archive 2009-06-01 2009

Then you could pass a by-law forbidding gondoliering to be done in any style later than the fifteenth century.

A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London') Sara Jeannette Duncan

The day these two spent gondoliering through the waterways, where romance hides in every nook, is imaginatively narrated in tone in Nevin's suite, "Un Giorno in Venezia," a book more handsomely published even than the others of his works, which have been among the earliest to throw off the disgraceful weeds of type and design formerly worn by native compositions.

Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Rupert Hughes 1914

The other three-quarters is because they like to be rowed there in gondolas by the gondoliers they've read about, and the gondoliers they've read about wore proper gondoliering clothes -- they didn't look like East River loafers. "

A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London') Sara Jeannette Duncan