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Battuta

Battuta \Bat*tu"ta\, n. [It. battuta, fr. battere to beat.] (Mus.) The measuring of time by beating.

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battuta

n. (context music English) beat

Usage examples of "battuta".

Ibn Battuta had come here after travels in Arabia and India and China, and written admiringly of the kingdom of Mali.

What Heinrich Barth could find in the Western Sudan a hundred years ago would not have greatly differed in its social life and limits from the Mali of Ibn Battuta, five hundred years before.

But the Europe that Barth knew was altogether different from the Europe that Ibn Battuta could have known.

What Ibn Battuta had written of its miseries and perils in 1350 would remain as true in 1650 or 1850.

Riding northward on his return from the Western Sudan in 1353, Ibn Battuta saw these desert-bordering marts in the flower of their prosperity.

John doveva fare la battuta ed allontanossi seguendo le istruzioni del suo compagno.

Ibn Battuta, the great Arab traveller, visited Baghdad in 1327 and found that the merged institution had four juridical schools.

Ibn Battuta lived there for seven years and, like Marco Polo before him, was appointed as an ambassador, in his case to the sultan of Delhi.

Per amore dell'umanità Fletcher si augu­rava che quella strada non fosse più battuta per molti anni a venire e aveva buoni motivi per sperarlo.

Lasciò il palco immediatamente, e ci fu solo una battuta, forse due, di esitazione prima che la folla applaudisse di nuovo.