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- noun A marshy and unhealthy region lying along the sea-shore.
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Examples
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The maremma is a breed of livestock guardian dog that originated in central Italy nearly two thousand years ago.
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_O pescatore da maremma_, and led by Mr. Badcock, who wore a wreath of seaweed a-cock over one eye and waved a dripping basket of sea-urchins.
Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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The west wind blew strong; the clouds were heavy; now and then the moon shone on a sullen sea; now and then the darkness broke over rank maremma vapours; at times he heard the distant bellowing of the herds, at times he heard the moaning of the water; mighty cities, lost armies, slaughtered hosts, foundered fleets, were underneath that soil and sea; whole nations had their sepulchres on that low, wind-blown shore.
Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida 1839-1908 Ouida 1873
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Their passions, tumultuous and merciless as the Tyrrhene Sea, raged indeed with the danger, but also with the uses, of naturally appointed storm; while ours, pacific in corruption, languish in vague maremma of misguided pools; and are pestilential most surely as they retire.
Val d'Arno John Ruskin 1859
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Alps, and still more, of the sheets of snow on their southern slopes, which supply the refreshing streams of Lombardy: -- the equally steady increase of deadly maremma round Pisa and Venice; and other such phenomena, quite measurably traceable within the limits even of short life, and unaccompanied, as it seemed, by redeeming or compensatory agencies.
The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859
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Mr Chapman's maremma livestock dogs live on his Bungawalbin tea tree plantation with his flock of sheep, only interacting with their owner for feeding.
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Sentine: A file photo of a maremma dog guarding a flock of goats.
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CRAIG CHAPMAN has only lost one sheep to a wild dog attack in the last eight years, and it's all thanks to his two maremma dogs.
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More importantly, the chooks have live-in guardians - six maremma sheepdogs who protect them from predators.
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Egg-laying chooks that roam the land have six guardians - maremma sheepdogs MEET some of the happiest hens in the world.
avivamagnolia commented on the word maremma
~marsh, miasma
~maremmatic
January 18, 2009
avivamagnolia commented on the word maremma
~ Fertile, marshy land near the sea; refers to Italy
~ Latin: maritimus. See: maritime
Maremma (mära-m`mä), coastal area in Tuscany, central Italy, along the Tyrrhenian Sea and extending E to the Apennines. A flourishing region in Etruscan and early Roman times, it became marshy and was largely abandoned in the Middle Ages because of malaria. Reclamation was begun (19th cent.) by the grand dukes of Tuscany and was continued in the 20th cent. by the Italian government. There are now wide fertile areas, rich borax mines, and good hunting grounds; cattle and a noted breed of horses are raised. Cities include Piombino (a port) and Grosetto (an inland agricultural center).
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January 18, 2009