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Definition of Cremona

1. Noun. A city in Lombardy on the Po River; noted for the manufacture of fine violins from the 16th to the 18th centuries.

Definition of Cremona

1. n. A superior kind of violin, formerly made at Cremona, in Italy.

Definition of Cremona

1. Proper noun. Province of Lombardy, Italy. ¹

2. Proper noun. Town and capital of Cremona. ¹

3. Noun. A superior kind of violin, formerly made at Cremona in Italy. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cremona

1. crumhorn [n -S] - See also: crumhorn

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cremona

Literary usage of Cremona

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Italy: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1906)
"M. Cremona. — The Railway Station is outside the Porta ... Cremona espoused the cause of Frederick Barbarossa against Milan and Crema, and subsequently came ..."

2. Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society by London Mathematical Society (1904)
"But to Cremona specially belongs the merit of the new life infused into the study of pure geometry in Italy, and of the impulse which it there received in ..."

3. The Lombard Communes: A History of the Republics of North Italy by William Francis Thomas Butler (1906)
"Natural allies of Cremona through a ( common hatred of Milan were Lodi and Pavia, and a few years afterwards we find the three attacking Tortona, ..."

4. Italy: Handbook for Travellers : First Part, Northern Italy, Including by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1886)
"From Milan to Mantua via Cremona. From Milan to ('20M. ... Cremona, the capital of a province and an episcopal see, with 31083 inhab., lies in a fertile ..."

5. Italy and Her Invaders by Thomas Hodgkin (1895)
"On the 2 ist of August Cremona was taken, and, according to Paulus, ... From Cremona he marched against its old neighbour Mantua, beat down its walls with ..."

6. History of Federal Government in Greece and Italy by Edward Augustus Freeman, John Bagnell Bury (1893)
"... than one city of the League forsook the common cause, and made private terms Various with its now gracious and placable sovereign. Cremona had ..."

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