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borgata, n.
Brit. |bɔːˈgɑːtə|, U.S. |bɔrˈgɑdə|
Plural -s, borgate
Forms: 19– borgata, 19– brugad
[‹ Italian borgata village (13th cent.), suburban working-class area in Rome (a 1956; earlier in the names of such areas) > n.; compare ancient Greek πύργος tower) + -ata -ate suffix2.
In form brugad representing Italian regional pronunciation of borgata. In plural form borgate after the Italian plural form.]
1. In Italy: a district of improvised or poor quality residential housing, typically located on the outskirts of a city; a slum.
1929Geogr. Rev. 19 555 The population which is establishing itself permanently in the Campagna is being recruited for the most part..from among the inhabitants of Rome, in the new borgate and other centers of colonization nearest the city. 1958H. Cantril Politics of Despair iv. 67 The inhabitants of the borgata were asked, ‘What illness most troubles you?’ 1977New Yorker 2 May 102/2 Some seventy borgate around Rome are still not recognized on the city plan. 1985New Yorker 22 July 67 The Don Bosco is a typical postwar Roman borgata—a hastily constructed residential quarter of dreary, slablike apartment buildings. 1993St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch 7 Mar. 5 c, Pasolini, 53, was one of Italy's most prominent intellectuals, a middle-class Marxist who celebrated the poor, the boys of the ‘borgata’.
2. U.S. An organized branch of the Mafia; a Mafia family.
1963Organized Crime & Illicit Traffic in Narcotics (U.S. Senate Comm. on Govt. Operations, 88th Congr. 1 Sess.) i. 81, I was with Vito Genovese, that is the family, or our borgata, in Italian. 1970in H. A. Ziegler Sam the Plumber 52 Who the hell are you to take over a borgata (Family)? 1990Time 3 Sept. 54/2 These are difficult times for the 25 families, or ‘brugads’, that make up America's Cosa Nostra. 2001Las Vegas Mercury (Electronic ed.) 9 Mar. They almost got killed by a rival brugad, the toughest mob in the history of Las Vegas. |