Crossword clues for vespa
vespa
- Vehicle whose name means "wasp"
- Turin two-wheeler
- Stylish scooter
- Scooter favored by '60s British mods
- Scooter brand whose parent company is Piaggio
- Popular scooter
- Motor-scooter maker
- Motor scooter maker
- Maker of the LX 150 scooter
- Its GTS model can get 70 miles per gallon
- Italian for "wasp"
- Iconic scooter brand
- Commuter scooter
- Brand whose name is Italian for "wasp"
- Big name in little transports
- "Roman Holiday" vehicle
- "Roman Holiday" two-wheeled transportation
- "Roman Holiday" transport
- "Not just a scooter, a way of life" brand
- Popular Italian motor scooter
- Hornet genus
- Popular Italian scooter
- Italian motor scooter
- Italian scooter brand
- Type genus of the Vespidae various hornets and yellow jackets
- Line of motor scooters
- Yellow jacket or wasp
- Hornet, e.g.
- Wasp genus
- Italian scooter named for an insect
- Hornet, e.g
- "Roman Holiday" scooter
- Big name in scooters
- Piaggio transportation line
- Motor scooter model
- Hip scooter
- Big name in motor scooters
- What Italians may use to commute
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vespa \Ves"pa\, n. [L., wasp.] (Zo["o]l.) A genus of Hymenoptera including the common wasps and hornets.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1950, proprietary name of an Italian make of motor scooter, first produced 1946, from Italian, literally "wasp," from Latin vespa (see wasp). Rival brand was Lambretta.
Wikipedia
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Vespa is a line of motor scooters manufactured by Piaggio.
Vespa may also refer to:
' Vespa' (foaled 1830) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare who won the classic Oaks Stakes at Epsom Downs Racecourse in 1833. The filly's win at Epsom, a 50/1 upset, was the only success in her first two seasons of racing. She produced her best form as a four-year-old when she won four times, including three important races at Newmarket Racecourse. At the end of her British racing career she was sold and exported to Hungary.
Usage examples of "vespa".
Carl Vespa, for all his kindnesses to her, was not one for idle chitchat.
Carl Vespa did not dress in Sopranos-style velour or shiny, sealant-coated suits.
Carl Vespa ended up sitting in her hospital room for days on end, sleeping in the chair next to her.
Even Carl Vespa had allowed a picture of him and his wife, Sharon, sitting in their yard, both still looking as if someone had just hollowed out their insides.
She considered herself pretty good at reading people, but Carl Vespa had changed her view.
He should have felt tremendous fear seeing Vespa in the flesh, but no, he was beyond that now.
Awful to say now, but Vespa believed that if they had more children, if Ryan had at least one sibling, it would have made the tragedy, if not easier, at least bearable.
It had been there that Vespa and Cram had watched the smoke billow as if from Hades when the towers fell.
But on that day, standing silently in the yard, watching the smoke not dissipate, Vespa had seen even Cram break down and cry.
When Larue finished Vespa stood there, his face unchanged, waiting for more.
Grace stopped and remembered what Carl Vespa had said about Jack Lawson seeking her out.
On the sidewalk below them, pacing like two lions, were Carl Vespa and Cram.
Beautiful as you are as Vespa, exciting as you are as Lisette, and charming as you are as a man, when we talk about serious matters, I want it to be us.
She was only five yards back, straddling a rust-scarred lime green Vespa scooter.
How appropriate that her avenging angel would arrive on a Vespa, buzzing along like an angry wasp.