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‖ ciˈgala, cigale
[a. F. cigale, It. & Pr. cigala:—L. cicāda.]
= cicada, cicala.
1623Favine Theat. Hon. iii. iv. 361 Like as the Athenians did weare Cigales on their shooes. 1653Urquhart Rabelais ii. xi, Grasshoppers, locusts, cigals, and such like fly-fowls. 1768H. Walpole Corr. (1837) II. 400 Constantly whining and droning and interrupting like a cigala in a sultry day in Italy. 1824Heber Jrnl. (1828) I. ix. 247 Still as we pass, from bush and briar, The shrill cigala strikes his lyre. 1878Besant & Rice Celia's Arbour xxxii. 234 The shrill voice of the cigale. |