Lexicographical Neighbors of Ficoes
Literary usage of Ficoes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare, Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1903)
"... ficoes, the chief men of Venice were so called. 295. unwearied, that is most
unwearied, the superlative is communicated from the words kindest and ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1875)
"He, backed by the people, in times of public excitement and alarm, did dictate
to both King and nobles ; and the most powerful of the Whig magni- ficoes (as ..."
3. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society by Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) (1903)
"Their arrival in the autumn is concurrent with that of the ortolans or "
Becca-ficoes," and popular belief ascribes the coincidence to the fact that the ..."
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