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Definition of Impresa
1. n. A device on a shield or seal, or used as a bookplate or the like.
Definition of Impresa
1. a type of emblem [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Impresa
Literary usage of Impresa
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. From Academia to Amicitia: Milton's Latin Writings and the Italian Academies by Estelle Haan (1998)
"... impresa is like the body; its motto is like the soul;46 the second examines
in some detail the general impresa and motto of the Svogliati. ..."
2. Drummond of Hawthornden: The Story of His Life and Writings by David Masson (1873)
"Though " emblems and impresas sometimes seem like each other, what " is a perfection
in an emblem is a great fault in an impresa, " The words of the emblem ..."
3. Publications by Musical Antiquarian Society (1842)
"An impresa of Marie of Lorraine, her Mother, a Phoenix in flames, ... The impresa
of an Apple tree growing in a Thorn, the word, Per vincula crescit. ..."
4. Historia Crítica de la Literatura Espanola by José Amador de los Ríos (1865)
"En el primer capítulo, que en la crónica impresa se reduce á breves líneas, ...
El segundo capítulo, suprimido en la impresa, que es de sumo interés, ..."
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