Lexicographical Neighbors of Girandolas
Literary usage of Girandolas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fair Lusitania by Catherine Charlotte Jackson (1874)
"This was also the signal for firing off simultaneously, but at different parts
of the city, ten girandolas de foguetes of a thousand rockets each. ..."
2. Excursions in the Counties of Kent, Gloucester, Hereford, Monmouth, and by James Peller Malcolm (1814)
"Then three girandolas, or fire-wheels, were played off. ... Then three more
girandolas, or fire-wheels, as before; concluding with four runners on lines. ..."
3. Excursions in Kent, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Monmouthshire and by James Peller Malcolm (1814)
"Then three girandolas, or fire-wheels, were played off. ... Then three more
girandolas, or fire-wheels, as before ; concluding with four runners on lines. ..."
4. James Russell Lowell: A Biography by Horace Elisha Scudder (1901)
"... and which I would rather see again than twenty girandolas ? If Michelangelo
had designed our fireworks, and if it did not by some fatal coincidence ..."
5. Italian Gardens of the Renaissance: And Other Studies by Julia Mary Cartwright Ady (1914)
"... water-organs, girandolas, spouting giants, " wetting sports and all those
artificial miracles" which were the inevitable features of a Roman garden in ..."
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