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- noun dialectal
grandmother
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Examples
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'nonna' slice, focaccia style, 'traditional style' or simply pan pizza, call it what you will,
WordPress.com News 2009
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Sono nonna di tre splendidi nipoti che colorano le mie giornate e sono fonte inesauribile di gioia.
Disney sull'adozione spirituale. Virna Lisi e i suoi nipoti all ... admin 2009
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Inside the colorful, creative, zig-zag world of the nonna of knitwear.
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Back in mah day we didn't have nonna yer fancy cee-gees, boy!
Revisiting Star Trek [Part 1 of 7]: The Original Series 2009
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My nonna, the Godmother, he thought, but didn't say.
Locomotion Carol Reid 2010
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When my husband calls me Nonna, I tell him I may be a nonna, but I am not HIS nonna!!
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My nonna, the Godmother, he thought, but didn't say.
Locomotion Carol Reid 2011
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Sono nonna di tre splendidi nipoti che colorano le mie giornate e sono fonte inesauribile di gioia.
Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009
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Locatelli specifies fresh egg pasta, rolled very thinly and blanched before baking – I make a batch, and lovingly send it twice through my pasta roller's thinnest setting hey, I'm no nonna, but I can't see that it's worth the effort: after 40 minutes in the oven, it's too soft for my taste.
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My nonna, my parents, my uncles and aunts, my bad-boy lover, my poor sad childhood companion, my surrogate mother, the babies who never were, all gone, all mourned but now settled in a pantheon of calm remembrance, do they envy the grief I feel for this one absent friend?
Lavender Carol Reid 2010
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