Crossword clues for sicilian
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sicilian \Si*cil"i*an\, a. Of or pertaining to Sicily or its inhabitants.
Sicilian vespers, the great massacre of the French in Sicily, in the year 1282, on the evening of Easter Monday, at the hour of vespers.
Sicilian \Si*cil"i*an\, n. A native or inhabitant of Sicily.
Wikipedia
Sicily is an autonomous Italian island. The adjectival form Sicilian can also refer to:
- Sicilian language
- Sicilian Baroque, baroque architecture in 17th & 18th centuries on Sicily
- Sicilian cart, an ornate, colorful style of horse-drawn cart native to Sicily
- Sicilian cuisine
- Sicilian Defence, in chess
- Sicilian derby, an annual football (soccer) match in Sicily
- Sicilian Expedition, an abortive military filibuster from Athens in 415 BCE
- Sicilian Fir, Abies nebrodensis, an evergreen tree native to northern Sicily
- Sicilian octave, an Italian verse form consisting of eight lines of eleven syllables each
- Sicilian people
- Sicilian pizza, pizza with ingredients incorporated into the dough
- Sicilian revolt, (44–36 BCE)
- Sicilian School, poetry (1230–1266)
- Sicilian Stage, faunal stage in Europa (0.781–0.26 mya)
- Sicilian Vespers, a rebellion in Sicily in 1282
- Sicilian Wars, a series of wars between Carthage and Greeks (480–307 BCE)
- The Sicilian, a novel by Mario Puzo
Usage examples of "sicilian".
Phrygians call me the mother of the Gods: the Athenians, Minerva: the Cyprians, Venus: the Candians, Diana: the Sicilians Proserpina: the Eleusians, Ceres: some Juno, other Bellona, other Hecate: and principally the Aethiopians which dwell in the Orient, and the Aegyptians which are excellent in all kind of ancient doctrine, and by their proper ceremonies accustome to worship mee, doe call mee Queene Isis.
Sicilians considered this Aragonese King to be the natural successor to the crown.
He stared fixedly at the southern end of Sabbioncello, where according to his list there was a small yard belonging to one Boccanegra: but as Boccanegra, a Sicilian, had a father-inlaw of importance among the Carbonari and their sometimes very curious allies, Stephen was not sure that his yard was part of the bargain.
Despite the Sicilian ownership, they said, they usually sailed under either Granadan, Catalonian, or Portuguese ensigns, and their home port of late had been Las Palmas, on the island of Majorca.
It is not the familiar Doric of Syracuse, nor even the obscure Elymi or Sicani, for I have spoken with many Sicilian merchants and soldiers in my life, and none, during my discreet queries, recognized any of the words I attempted to parrot from the recollections of my infancy.
I correct in thinking that, were I to assume command of the Sicilian militia and spill Pompeius Bithynicus Filius, you would confirm me as governor of Sicily, Caesar?
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Napoli, amid burly Inglesi, straight-nosed Greeks, swarthy Sicilians, and Maltese with spirits as fine as the gold of their own chains.
She is terrified of the Sicilians, and I firmly believe that Piatti can force her to give up the proofs of the crime to him.
Italian mafia ran the show, and you got to order pasta puttanesca at really nice Sicilian restaurants.
After he realized that our language was English he yelled that he was bound to Valetta from Sardinia, that he had been dismasted in the gale, and that there were pirates on the Sicilian coast who would soon emerge.
I was pleased with his advice, and I went immediately to the minister, who was a Sicilian and a man of parts.
But when well filled with some of the brandy from the hold of the other prize ship, certain humbler members of the Sicilian lugger's crew had waxed more voluble, averring that the ship had indeed borne no cargo in the last three trips, either, only passengers, noble passengers, mostly.
He was an impressively handsome middle-aged man, tall for a Sicilian, with a very deep sunburn, exquisitely tailored and barbered.
The 1st and 4th Ranger Battalions, having completed their Sicilian fighting, were sent to Cor-leone just south of Palermo for rest and refitting.