Crossword clues for solferino
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Solferino \Sol`fe*ri"no\, n. A brilliant deep pink color with a purplish tinge, one of the dyes derived from aniline; -- so called from Solferino in Italy, where a battle was fought about the time of its discovery.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A brilliant purple-red dye derived from aniline 2 The purple-red colour of this dye
WordNet
n. a purplish pink dye was discovered in 1859, the year a battle was fought at Solferino [syn: purplish pink]
an indecisive battle in 1859 between the French and Sardinians under Napoleon III and the Austrians under Francis Joseph I [syn: battle of Solferino]
Wikipedia
Solférino is a commune in the Landes department in Aquitaine in south-western France.
It was created in 1863 by Napoléon III by uniting several neighboring communities. It is named after the Battle of Solferino.
Solférino is a station on Line 12 of the Paris Métro in the 7th arrondissement.
The station opened on 5 November 1910 as part of the original section of the Nord-Sud Company's line A between Porte de Versailles and Notre-Dame-de-Lorette. On 27 March 1931 line A became line 12 of the Métro. It is named after the Rue de Solférino, which is named after the Battle of Solférino a battle fought in 1859 during the Second Italian War of Independence.
Solférino is one of the last stations in which the original Nord-Sud Company style of décor has been maintained, with its characteristic large ceramic tablets indicating the name of the station. This is the result of extensive renovation.
Nearby are the Musée d'Orsay and the town hall of the 7th arrondissement.
Usage examples of "solferino".
Rome if she had not succeeded in gaining over Prince Gonzaga Solferino, who married the pretty Mdlle.
Prince Gonzaga Solferino, whom I saw at Venice eighteen years ago, lived on a pension allowed him by the empress.
But those who have sold it have forgotten that, like Magenta and Solferino, you have only memory for hatred.
Galantuomo, and he paid the homage of a veteran of Solferino to that glorious memory.
Although the main body of the Austrians seems to be still concentrated between Peschiera and Verona, I should not wonder if they crossed the Mincio either to-day or to-morrow, with the object of occupying the heights of Volta, Cavriana, and Solferino, which, both by their position and by the nature of the ground, are in themselves so many fortresses.
To the simple private, who does not know of diplomatic imbroglios and of political considerations, this sudden retreat means an almost as sudden retracing of steps, because he remembers that this manoeuvre preceded both the attacks on Solferino and on Custozza by the Austrians.
Habsburg army was defeated at Magenta and Solferino the imperial court was forced into making great concessions.
There was a sword that some long-dead Baroni had carried in the Battle of Solferino, at a time when Nice and Savoy were speaking Italian.
Indeed they could see, to the left of the road and a little farther on, the lights of Solferino blurred by the rain.
He was there, resolute, somber, teeth clenched, and, after all, was this not the same road he had taken from Bone to Solferino, almost forty years earlier, on the wagon, under the same autumn sky?
It is only on fitting occasions, when great principles are to be vindicated, and solemn truths told, when some moral or political Waterloo or Solferino is to be fought, that he puts on the entire panoply of his gorgeous rhetoric.
Italian campaigns and perished at the Battle of Solferino, a troublesome battle where everyone lost everybody else.
His quarry disappeared between the abutments of the pont de Solferino and was lost among the shadows.
Prince Gonzaga Solferino, whom I saw at Venice eighteen years ago, lived on a pension allowed him by the empress.
Rome if she had not succeeded in gaining over Prince Gonzaga Solferino, who married the pretty Mdlle.