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‖ maremma|məˈrɛmə|
Pl. maremme.
[a. It. maremma, ‘a country by the sea shore’ (Baretti).]
1. a. Low marshy insalubrious country by the sea shore.
1832tr. Sismondi's Ital. Rep. vii. 170 Telamone, a port in the maremma of Sienna. 1866Ruskin Eth. Dust 227 The steady increase of deadly maremma round Pisa and Venice.
b. transf. The malarial exhalations of a maremma.
In mod. Dicts.
2. attrib., as maremma sheep-dog.
1945C. L. B. Hubbard Observer's Bk. Dogs 102 Maremma Sheepdog. 1948― Dogs in Brit. iii. xviii. 202 Common in central Italy from Tuscany to the Abruzzes, the Maremma Sheepdog is also called the Cani da Pastor Maremmani, Abruzzi Sheepdog and Maremmes Sheepdog. The breed is centuries old and has been bred pure by Tuscan farmers for herding sheep and cattle; lately the race has been in more general use, particularly as a guard dog. 1972Country Life 2 Nov. 1186/3 Maremma (Italian) Sheep Dog.
Hence mareˈmmatic, mareˈmmese adjs., belonging to a maremma; maˈremman a., as in maremann dog.
a1905N.E.D., Maremmatic, Maremmese: in recent Dicts. 1924A. Huxley Little Mexican 283 The old gentleman..taking his big maremman dog for a walk [in Tuscany]. |