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Definition of Florio
1. Noun. English lexicographer remembered for his Italian and English dictionary (1553-1625).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Florio
Literary usage of Florio
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"After 1620 Florio resided at Fulham, and he died there in August or September
... Florio desired these books and manuscripts to be placed in Pembroke's ..."
2. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"Fr. pine) ; rilla (Florio) ... rozzone (Florio); San Cresci-in-Mano (Florio : '
because it grows in one's hand ') ... (Florio : ' a great swag- ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"His father, Michael Angelo Florio, was pastor of an Italian Protestant congregation
... Three years later Florio was admitted a member of Magdalen College, ..."
4. Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History Critical and by Robert Chambers, David Patrick (1901)
"John Florio, the translator of Montaigne, was born in London about 1553. ...
John Florio appears as a private tutor in foreign languages at Oxford about ..."
5. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"Having projected teeth. A, GOW. (1) Wild myrtle. Florio, p. 4. (2) Let us go.
Suffolk. An abbreviation of j« t plur. ..."
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