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Cortina   Listen
noun
cortina  n.  (pl. cortinae)  (Biology) A cobwebby remnant of the partial veil which in some mature mushrooms hang from the edges of the cap.






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"Cortina" Quotes from Famous Books



... fallen into an error in imputing the beautiful cancion of the "Querella de Amor" to Villena. It was composed by the Marquis of Santillana. (Bouterwek, Historia de la Literatura Espanola, traducida por Cortina y Hugalde y Mollinedo, (Madrid, 1829,) p. 196, and Sanchez, Poesias Castellanas, tom. i. pp. ...
— History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella V1 • William H. Prescott

... Cadore, the Italians are campaigning in one of the world's most famous playgrounds, for, in the days before the Great War, pleasure-seekers from every corner of Europe and America swarmed by the tens of thousands in the country round about Cortina and in the enchanted valleys of the Dolomites. But now great gray guns are emplaced in the shady glens where the honeymooners used to stroll; on the terraces of the tourist hostelries, where, on summer afternoons, men in white flannels and women in dainty frocks chattered over their tea, ...
— Italy at War and the Allies in the West • E. Alexander Powell

... of the main routes through the Dolomites, leading from Southern Tirol into Italy. It is in part identical with the route outlined by Albert in "Intermezzo," but parts from it at Cortina to run ...
— The Lonely Way—Intermezzo—Countess Mizzie - Three Plays • Arthur Schnitzler



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