Francesca

[ fran-ches-kuh, frahn-; Italian frahn-che-skah ]

noun

1. Pie·ro del·la [pee-, air, -oh , del, -, uh, pye, -, r, aw , del, -lah], Piero dei Franceschi, c1420–92, Italian painter.
2. Also Fran·cis·ca [] a female given name, form of Frances.

Francesca

/ franˈtʃeska /

noun

1. See Piero della Francesca

Example Sentences

She dispatched unseeded Italian Francesca Schiavone, winner of the 2010 French Open, in just an hour, 6–0, 6–1.

From The Daily Beast

Francesca Segal and Sam Byers are appealing young British novelists.

From The Daily Beast

Another image by Piero della Francesca, from his St. Augustine Altarpiece and now on view at the Frick Collection in New York.

From The Daily Beast

The Daily Pic: Piero della Francesca Crosses Togas and Turbans.

From The Daily Beast

The Daily Pic: Piero della Francesca created his worlds from scratch.

From The Daily Beast

Giovanni Francesca Abela, a historian and ecclesiastic of Malta, died.

From Project Gutenberg

I have only just finished the composition of a new work, the symphonic fantasia, Francesca da Rimini.

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Would it be possible to perform my new symphonic poem, Francesca da Rimini, instead?

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Who versified it, and composed the music, I cannot tell, but it is the Francesca da Rimini which everybody knows.

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Francesca is inflexibly, almost aggressively American, but Salemina is a citizen of the world.

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