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Genevese   Listen
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Genevese  adj.  Of or pertaining to Geneva, in Switzerland; Genevan.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Genevese" Quotes from Famous Books



... pupil be always compelled to wear the skin of an ox under his foot? What harm would come of it if his own skin could serve him at need as a sole. It is clear that a delicate skin could never be of any use in this way, and may often do harm. The Genevese, aroused at midnight by their enemies in the depth of winter, seized their guns rather than their shoes. Who can tell whether the town would have escaped capture if its citizens had not been ...
— Emile • Jean-Jacques Rousseau

... in question was stuffed with a quantity of long, delicately spiral shavings, sprinkled with silver spangles or flakes of isinglass, and covered by a piece of pale blue illusion. This device— peculiarly Genevese—was supposed to represent ...
— The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel • Thomas Bailey Aldrich



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