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Italian city (Pavarotti's birthplace)
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modena
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Gazetteer
Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 610 Housing Units (2000): 211 Land area (2000): 0.330195 sq. miles (0.855200 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.001208 sq. miles (0.003130 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.331403 sq. miles (0.858330 sq. km) FIPS code: 50232 Located within: Pennsylvania ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Italian city, the name probably is from a pre-Latin language, but folk etymology connects it with Mutina , epithet of the nymph Lara who was stricken dumb by Zeus in punishment for her loquacity, from Latin mutus . Related: Modenese .
Usage examples of modena.
Barbaro told me the chief incidents in a life that had been adventurous enough, and informed me that he was now in the service of the Duke of Modena, the Governor of Milan.
I could therefore penetrate into the state of Mantua by stating that I was coming from Modena, my success would be certain, because I could then cross the Po and go straight to Venice.
On the 26th of December the Abbe Marquisio, the envoy of the Duke of Modena, asked the viceroy, before a considerable number of people, if he could pay me a visit, to give me a letter which he could place in no hands but mine.
It was the converted Jew who had purchased for His Majesty the gallery of the Duke of Modena for one hundred thousand sequins.
Duke of Modena, had long chosen him as his representative with other powers.
Milanese jurisconsult, turned ecclesiastic, enlarged him by one of the first acts of his Papacy, and restored him to the charge of the diocese of Modena.
He accordingly took possession of Comachio and some other places, pretending they were allodial estates belonging to the duke of Modena, and fiefs of the emperor, to which the holy see had no lawful claim.
On the exhausting ride home from Modena on the autostrada we stopped at a service area, where I bought Cesare a bag of American tortilla chips.
Modena a too-zealous detective of the French police, struck with the Alsatian accent of the orderly, immediately decided that they were two Prussian spies, and refused to allow them to proceed, since they could show him no passports.
Knowing the hour at which the barge arrived from Modena, we all went to meet them, except M.
Gondoin, a colonel in the service of the Duke of Modena, because he held a faro bank at his house.
I saw the marquis some time afterwards at Marseilles, and a few years later he purchased two estates at Modena.
Barbaro told me the chief incidents in a life that had been adventurous enough, and informed me that he was now in the service of the Duke of Modena, the Governor of Milan.
I got to Modena the evening after I left Bologna, and I stopped there, with one of those sudden whims to which I have always been subject.
He immediately made up his mind to go to Modena in order to explain to his pupil how he was to act in Venice to open for himself the way to a brilliant fortune.