citta
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of citta
From Sanskrit
Example Sentences
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Condemned in absentia to death by burning, Dante for the last 20 years of his life wandered in exile from the "bella citta" he loved.
From Time Magazine Archive
They stand to the more purist kinds of geometrical abstraction as the plan of a hill town does to a Renaissance citta ideale.
From Time Magazine Archive
The virtù generativa degli uomini, which is always the same, is found face to face with the virtù nutritiva delle citta.
From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Roscher, Wilhelm
She sang as she did so, even as her foremothers had sung seven hundred years back— Poggibonizzi, fatti in la, Che Monteriano si fa citta!
From Where Angels Fear to Tread by Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan)
Alessandro de' Medici, he to whom the title of Duke della citta di Penna was given, was the son of the Duke d'Urbino, Catherine's father, by a Moorish slave.
From Catherine De Medici by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott
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