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‖ villeggiatura|villeddʒaˈtura|
Also (incorrectly) villegiatura.
[It., f. villeggiare to live at a villa or in the country, f. villa villa.]
Residence at a country villa or in the country; a holiday spent in this way.
1742Walpole Let. to Mann 1 Nov., I don't wonder that she hates the country; I dare to say her child does not owe its existence to the Villeggiatura. 1765Smollett Trav. xxix. (1766) II. 80 The mountain of Viterbo is covered with beautiful plantations and villas belonging to the Roman nobility, who come hither to make the villegiatura in summer. 1822Shelley Prose Wks. (1880) IV. 284 Lord Byron is in villeggiatura, near Leghorn. 1845Prescott in Life Longfellow (1891) II. 22 We keep our villeggiatura at Pepperell, not flitting at all to Nahant this summer. 1885Times (wkly. ed.) 18 Sept. 15/3 [They] occasionally left the cares and dignity of the Vice-regal Lodge to come down for a quiet villegiatura here.
So ‖ villegiature. Obs.—1 [F. villegiature.]
1740Corr. betw. C'tess Hartford & C'tess Pomfret (1805) II. 172, I am sorry the nobility of Florence did not defer their villegiature till Christmas. |