biltade
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bilˈta.de/
- Rhymes: -ade
- Hyphenation: bil‧tà‧de
Noun
biltade f (plural biltadi)
- (obsolete) Alternative form of beltà (“beauty”)
- c. 1307, Dante Alighieri, “Trattato terzo, Capitolo VIII [Third treatise, Chapter 8]”, in Convivio [The Banquet], Florence: Le Monnier, published 1964, section 21:
- conchiudo, sotto colore d’ammonire altrui, lo fine a che fatta fue tanta biltade; e dico che qual donna sente per manco la sua biltade biasimare, guardi in questo perfettissimo essemplo
- I disclose, under the pretense of admonishing someone else, the end for which such beauty was made. And I say that any lady who hears her beauty slighted for some defect should gaze upon this most perfect example
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Anagrams
- Tebaldi, beltadi