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Savoy

noun

A geographical region of historical importance; a former duchy in what is now southwestern France, western Switzerland, and northwestern Italy.

Head of soft crinkly leaves. Synonym: savoy cabbage.

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... I was lunching at the Savoy, and while talking to the head waiter, Cesari, who afterwards managed the Elysee Palace Hotel in Paris, I thought I saw Oscar and Douglas go out together. Being a little short-sighted, ...

— Oscar Wilde, Volume 1 (of 2) - His Life and Confessions • Frank Harris

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... battlement. The walls retain their machicolations, and I should judge that nothing had been [altered], nor any more work been done upon the old fortress than to keep it in singularly good repair. It was formerly a castle of the Duke of Savoy, and since his sway over the country ceased (three hundred years at least), it has been in the hands of the Swiss government, who still keep some arms and ...

— Passages From the French and Italian Notebooks, Complete • Nathaniel Hawthorne

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... that he visited Italy. His mind being still occupied with schemes of finance, he proposed to Victor Amadeus, duke of Savoy, to establish his land-bank in that country. The duke replied that his dominions were too circumscribed for the execution of so great a project, and that he was by far too poor a potentate to be ruined. He advised him, however, to try the king of France once ...

— Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds • Charles Mackay

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... Lyons, Gondebaud issued the laws which regulated the establishment of his people in their new domains, which spread over what was later the great French Duchy of Burgundy, the whole extent of occidental Switzerland and Savoy. "Like brothers," it is related by the Latin chroniclers, they mingled with the resident inhabitants, dividing lands and serfs by lot, marrying their daughters, and quickly adopting their language ...

— The Counts of Gruyere • Mrs. Reginald de Koven

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... now served. In the centre of the table was a Savoy cake in the form of a temple, with a dome fluted with melon slices; and this dome was surmounted by an artificial rose, close to which was a silver paper butterfly, fluttering at the end of a wire. Two drops of gum in the centre of the flower imitated dew. ...

— L'Assommoir • Emile Zola

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