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Code that's dangerous to break
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omerta
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1909, from dialectal form of Italian umilta "humility," in reference to the code of submission of individuals to the group interest, from Latin humilitas (see humility ).
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Omertà or Omertà, The Code of Silence is a Quebec television series of 11 forty-five-minute episodes, created by Luc Dionne and aired from January to April 1996 on Radio-Canada . In France , the series aired on France 3 in 1998. A second season, titled ...
Usage examples of omerta.
A Mafia don brought up to follow the steel-jacketed code of silence, omerta, is a harebrained blabbermouth next to a resident of Bowman's Ridge who's got something not to say.
Angelo Carmine looked to omerta, the Sicilian code of silence, to protect him.
Their cachet was that once upon a time they didn't talk, omertà they used to call it, the Law of Silence.