Crossword clues for boccaccio
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jack \Jack\ (j[a^]k), n. [F. Jacques James, L. Jacobus, Gr. ?, Heb. Ya 'aq[=o]b Jacob; prop., seizing by the heel; hence, a supplanter. Cf. Jacobite, Jockey.]
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A familiar nickname of, or substitute for, John.
You are John Rugby, and you are Jack Rugby.
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An impertinent or silly fellow; a simpleton; a boor; a clown; also, a servant; a rustic. ``Jack fool.''
--Chaucer.Since every Jack became a gentleman, There 's many a gentle person made a Jack.
--Shak. A popular colloquial name for a sailor; -- called also Jack tar, and Jack afloat.
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A mechanical contrivance, an auxiliary machine, or a subordinate part of a machine, rendering convenient service, and often supplying the place of a boy or attendant who was commonly called Jack; as:
A device to pull off boots.
A sawhorse or sawbuck.
A machine or contrivance for turning a spit; a smoke jack, or kitchen jack. (b) (Mining) A wooden wedge for separating rocks rent by blasting. (e) (Knitting Machine) A lever for depressing the sinkers which push the loops down on the needles. (f) (Warping Machine) A grating to separate and guide the threads; a heck box. (g) (Spinning) A machine for twisting the sliver as it leaves the carding machine. (h) A compact, portable machine for planing metal. (i) A machine for slicking or pebbling leather. (k) A system of gearing driven by a horse power, for multiplying speed. (l) A hood or other device placed over a chimney or vent pipe, to prevent a back draught. (m) In the harpsichord, an intermediate piece communicating the action of the key to the quill; -- called also hopper. (n) In hunting, the pan or frame holding the fuel of the torch used to attract game at night; also, the light itself.
--C. Hallock.
A portable machine variously constructed, for exerting great pressure, or lifting or moving a heavy body such as an automobile through a small distance. It consists of a lever, screw, rack and pinion, hydraulic press, or any simple combination of mechanical powers, working in a compact pedestal or support and operated by a lever, crank, capstan bar, etc. The name is often given to a jackscrew, which is a kind of jack.
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The small bowl used as a mark in the game of bowls.
--Shak.Like an uninstructed bowler who thinks to attain the jack by delivering his bowl straight forward upon it.
--Sir W. Scott. The male of certain animals, as of the ass.
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(Zo["o]l.)
A young pike; a pickerel.
The jurel.
A large, California rock fish ( Sebastodes paucispinus); -- called also boccaccio, and m['e]rou.
The wall-eyed pike.
A drinking measure holding half a pint; also, one holding a quarter of a pint. [Prov. Eng.]
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(Naut.)
A flag, containing only the union, without the fly, usually hoisted on a jack staff at the bowsprit cap; -- called also union jack. The American jack is a small blue flag, with a star for each State.
A bar of iron athwart ships at a topgallant masthead, to support a royal mast, and give spread to the royal shrouds; -- called also jack crosstree.
--R. H. Dana, Jr.
The knave of a suit of playing cards.
(pl.) A game played with small (metallic, with tetrahedrally oriented spikes) objects (the jacks(1950+), formerly jackstones) that are tossed, caught, picked up, and arranged on a horizontal surface in various patterns; in the modern American game, the movements are accompanied by tossing or bouncing a rubber ball on the horizontal surface supporting the jacks. same as jackstones.
Money. [slang]
Apple jack.
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Brandy. Note: Jack is used adjectively in various senses. It sometimes designates something cut short or diminished in size; as, a jack timber; a jack rafter; a jack arch, etc. Jack arch, an arch of the thickness of one brick. Jack back (Brewing & Malt Vinegar Manuf.), a cistern which receives the wort. See under 1st Back. Jack block (Naut.), a block fixed in the topgallant or royal rigging, used for raising and lowering light masts and spars. Jack boots, boots reaching above the knee; -- worn in the 17 century by soldiers; afterwards by fishermen, etc. Jack crosstree. (Naut.) See 10, b, above. Jack curlew (Zo["o]l.), the whimbrel. Jack frame. (Cotton Spinning) See 4 (g), above. Jack Frost, frost or cold weather personified as a mischievous person. Jack hare, a male hare. --Cowper. Jack lamp, a lamp for still hunting and camp use. See def. 4 (n.), above. Jack plane, a joiner's plane used for coarse work. Jack post, one of the posts which support the crank shaft of a deep-well-boring apparatus. Jack pot (Poker Playing), the name given to the stakes, contributions to which are made by each player successively, till such a hand is turned as shall take the ``pot,'' which is the sum total of all the bets. See also jackpot. Jack rabbit (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of large American hares, having very large ears and long legs. The California species ( Lepus Californicus), and that of Texas and New Mexico ( Lepus callotis), have the tail black above, and the ears black at the tip. They do not become white in winter. The more northern prairie hare ( Lepus campestris) has the upper side of the tail white, and in winter its fur becomes nearly white. Jack rafter (Arch.), in England, one of the shorter rafters used in constructing a hip or valley roof; in the United States, any secondary roof timber, as the common rafters resting on purlins in a trussed roof; also, one of the pieces simulating extended rafters, used under the eaves in some styles of building. Jack salmon (Zo["o]l.), the wall-eyed pike, or glasseye. Jack sauce, an impudent fellow. [Colloq. & Obs.] Jack shaft (Mach.), the first intermediate shaft, in a factory or mill, which receives power, through belts or gearing, from a prime mover, and transmits it, by the same means, to other intermediate shafts or to a line shaft. Jack sinker (Knitting Mach.), a thin iron plate operated by the jack to depress the loop of thread between two needles. Jack snipe. (Zo["o]l.) See in the Vocabulary. Jack staff (Naut.), a staff fixed on the bowsprit cap, upon which the jack is hoisted. Jack timber (Arch.), any timber, as a rafter, rib, or studding, which, being intercepted, is shorter than the others. Jack towel, a towel hung on a roller for common use. Jack truss (Arch.), in a hip roof, a minor truss used where the roof has not its full section. Jack tree. (Bot.) See 1st Jack, n. Jack yard (Naut.), a short spar to extend a topsail beyond the gaff. Blue jack, blue vitriol; sulphate of copper. Hydraulic jack, a jack used for lifting, pulling, or forcing, consisting of a compact portable hydrostatic press, with its pump and a reservoir containing a supply of liquid, as oil. Jack-at-a-pinch.
One called upon to take the place of another in an emergency.
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An itinerant parson who conducts an occasional service for a fee.
Jack-at-all-trades, one who can turn his hand to any kind of work.
Jack-by-the-hedge (Bot.), a plant of the genus Erysimum ( Erysimum alliaria, or Alliaria officinalis), which grows under hedges. It bears a white flower and has a taste not unlike garlic. Called also, in England, sauce-alone.
--Eng. Cyc.Jack-in-office, an insolent fellow in authority.
--Wolcott.Jack-in-the-bush (Bot.), a tropical shrub with red fruit ( Cordia Cylindrostachya).
Jack-in-the-green, a chimney sweep inclosed in a framework of boughs, carried in Mayday processions.
Jack-of-the-buttery (Bot.), the stonecrop ( Sedum acre).
Jack-of-the-clock, a figure, usually of a man, on old clocks, which struck the time on the bell.
Jack-on-both-sides, one who is or tries to be neutral.
Jack-out-of-office, one who has been in office and is turned out.
--Shak.Jack the Giant Killer, the hero of a well-known nursery story.
Yellow Jack (Naut.), the yellow fever; also, the quarantine flag. See Yellow flag, under Flag.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
the name means "big-mouth" in Italian, from boccaccia, augmentative of bocca "mouth" (see bouche).
Wikipedia
Boccaccio, oder Der Prinz von Palermo (Boccaccio, or the Prince of Palermo) is an operetta in three acts by Franz von Suppé to a German libretto by Camillo Walzel and Richard Genée, based on the play by Jean-François Bayard, Adolphe de Leuven, Léon Lévy Brunswick and Arthur de Beauplan, based in turn on The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio.
The opera was first performed at the Carltheater, Vienna, on 1 February 1879.
An English translation was done by Oscar Weil and Gustav Hinrichs around 1883.
Boccaccio was a nightclub in Destelbergen, near Ghent, Belgium.
The club is known as the breeding ground of New Beat. In its heyday, the diamond shaped venue was crowded with people from all over Europe wanting to hear the new kinds of music playing. Some popular formations that played in Boccaccio are Lords of Acid (with members Praga Khan and Jade 4U), and the Confetti's. Legend has it that Belgian New Beat was born there when one of the "bocca" Djs (often credited to Marc Grouls) played an EBM record on 33rpm instead of 45rpm with the pitch control set to +8. The club was forced to close after a long series of drug problems. The name was sold, and the club was re-opened in Halen. Recently, the name was used for a club in Oostende, too. Famous Djs at the club were Olivier Pieters, Marc Grouls and Henk.
Robert De Maesschalck founded Balmoral and Boccaccio Life in 1963, as a dance and party hall. One year later a jukebox was added and the first dancing was born. On the opening night, two cars and a hundred bicycles were parked in front of the venue. In a continuous quest for better music experience, turntables, mixing panels and better sound were integrated. Driven by success in the late sixties Robert continued his path by opening several other bars and dancing facilities.
A few examples were The Number One (Ghent), Tiffany's (Knokke), The Twenty-seven (Ghent) and of course the legendary dance temple formerly known as BOCCACCIO since 1972.
The owner of the club in Oostende (Benny Strouven) is the same person as the owner of Boccaccio Life in Halen (Diest).
The Boccaccio Life in Halen (Diest) stopped in 2012.
Giovanni Boccaccio, (?1313-1375), was an Italian author and poet.
Boccaccio may also refer to:
- Boccaccio Boccaccino (1467-c.1525), an Italian painter
- Boccaccio (1920 film), a 1920 Austrian film
- Boccaccio (1936 film), a 1936 German musical film
- Boccaccio (1940 film), a 1940 Italian operetta film
- Boccaccio (1972 film), a 1972 Italian comedy film
- Boccaccio '70, a 1962 film by Mario Monicelli, Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti and Vittorio De Sica
- Boccaccio (operetta), an operetta by Franz von Suppé, first performed February 1, 1879
- Boccaccio (musical), a 1975 Broadway musical
- Boccaccio (nightclub), a Belgian nightclub in Ghent or Oostende
- M/V al-Salam Boccaccio 98, a ferry that sank on February 3, 2006 in the Red Sea
- Boccaccio (Mercury), a 135 km wide crater on Mercury at (-80,5°, 30°)
Boccaccio is a 1920 film directed by Michael Curtiz.
Boccaccio is a 1936 German musical film directed by Herbert Maisch and starring Albrecht Schoenhals, Gina Falckenberg and Willy Fritsch.
Boccaccio is a crater on Mercury. It has a diameter of 142 kilometers. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1976. Boccaccio is named for the Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio, who lived from 1313 to 1375.
Boccaccio is a 1940 Italian operetta film directed by Marcello Albani and starring Clara Calamai, Osvaldo Valenti and Silvana Jachino. It is based on the 1879 operetta Boccaccio by Franz von Suppé. It was made at the Scalera Studios in Rome.
Boccaccio (also known as The Nights of Boccaccio) is a 1972 Italian comedy film written and directed by Bruno Corbucci. It is loosely based on the Giovanni Boccaccio's novel Decameron, and it is part of a series of derivative comedies based on the success of Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Decameron.
Usage examples of "boccaccio".
The person appointed was Boccaccio, who had written the first biography of Dante and copied out the entire Divine Comedy himself as a gift for Petrarch.
The calamity chilled the hearts of men, wrote Boccaccio in his famous account of the plague in Florence that serves as introduction to the Decameron.
The rich fled to their country places like Boccaccio’s young patricians of Florence, who settled in a pastoral palace “removed on every side from the roads” with “wells of cool water and vaults of rare wines.
Though translated from Boccaccio’s De Claris vrulieribus, Christine makes it her own in the prologue, where she sits weeping and ashamed, wondering why men “are so unanimous in attributing wickedness to women” and why “we should be worse than men since we were also created by God.
Chaucer returned steeped in new material, but his epic of Troilus and Criseyde, adapted from Boccaccio, had to wait while he was dispatched to treat of peace with France.
It contained the poet’s copy of Vergil as well as his own and Boccaccio’s works and Dante’s Commedia.
Giovanni Boccaccio was born, most probably at Paris, in the year 1313.
So much as this Boccaccio has himself told us, under a transparent veil of allegory, in his Ameto.
Of Boccaccio's early years we know nothing more than that his first preceptor was the Florentine grammarian, Giovanni da Strada, father of the poet Zanobi da Strada, and that, when he was about ten years old, he was bound apprentice to a merchant, with whom he spent the next six years at Paris, whence he returned to Florence with an inveterate repugnance to commerce.
Their liaison lasted several years, during which Boccaccio recorded the various phases of their passion with exemplary assiduity in verse and prose.
Both these poems are in ottava rima, a metre which, if Boccaccio did not invent it, he was the first to apply to such a purpose.
King Robert was then dead, but Boccaccio enjoyed the favour of Queen Joan, of somewhat doubtful memory, at whose instance he hints in one of his later letters that he wrote the Decameron.
Without impugning Boccaccio's veracity we can hardly but think that the Decameron would have seen the light, though Queen Joan had withheld her encouragement.
How much Greek Boccaccio learned from him, and how far he may have been beholden to him in the compilation of his elaborate Latin treatise De Genealogia Deorum, in which he essayed with very curious results to expound the inner meaning of mythology, it is impossible to say.
One of the revelations concerned a matter which Boccaccio had supposed to be known only to Petrarch and himself.