Epiphania
Americannoun
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No matter how many times I brought it up, Epiphania always gave the same sad answer in her cadenced, Italian accent: "No, you can't buy it! The house is not on the market!"
From Salon • Jun. 5, 2022
The Befana's name is obviously derived from Epiphania.
From Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Miles, Clement A.
George, from his parents or his education, surnamed the Cappadocian, was born at Epiphania in Cilicia, in a fuller's shop.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 by Milman, Henry Hart
Epiphania, the Greeke word, which importeth onely the outter appearance of a thing, is here more significant, because of a Magnitude there is nothing visible or to bee seene, but the surface.
From The Way To Geometry by Bedwell, William
Befana, Beffana, be-f�′na, n. an Epiphany present or gift—a corruption of Epiphania, which name in Italy has become personified for children as a toy-bringing witch or fairy called La Befana.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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