Lucchesen.adj.
/luːˈkɪz//luːˈkeɪsi/ A. n. † a. A dialect of Italian once spoken in the city or (former) province of Lucca in north-west Tuscany. Obsolete exc. historical.
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courtesan1549
Roman1561
Tuscan1568
Lombard1598
Neapolitan1598
Venetian1598
Lucchese1642
Milanese1642
Piedmontese1642
Romanesco1792
Sicilian1818
Ligurian1835
Bolognese1839
Corsican1855
Florentine1855
Veronese1872
Emilian1878
Romanaccio1963
Torinese1975
1642 J. Howell Instr. Forreine Travell xi. 138 These varieties of Dialects in France and Spaine, are farre lesse in number to those of Italy... There is in Italy..the Toscan, the Roman, the Venetian, the Neapolitan, the Calabrese, the Genovese, the Luquesse..and others.
b. A native or inhabitant of Lucca.
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Genowayc1400
Neapolitanc1425
Venetian1432
milliner1449
Milanese1484
Genevois1521
Genoeses1553
Pisan1559
Ferrarese1573
Florentine1591
Paduana1592
Amalfitan1600
Bergamask1602
Genovese1603
Genoan1608
Salernitan1608
Patavine1611
Vicentine1611
White Moors1617
Perugian1620
Genoesian1624
Lucchese1660
Veronese1673
Modenese1711
Pavian1712
Sienese1756
Patavinian1771
Livornese1789
Bolognese1818
Torinese1864
Assisian1870
Triestine1905
Luccan1911
Padovan1953
Cassinese1957
1660 E. Warcupp tr. F. Schottus Italy i. 135 In 1303 the Lucchesi colleagued with the Florentines against the Pistoiesi.
1886 W. D. Howells Tuscan Cities 230 He might as well be a Lucchese.
1912 J. Sully Italian Trav. Sketches x. 237 The Torre..rebuilt by the Lucchesi... During this spell of comparative calm..the Lucchesi took down the tower.
1965 E. Whelpton Florence & Tuscany ix. 112 The Lucchese got rid of the Pisans when Castruccio Castracane became the absolute ruler of their city.
B. adj.
Of or pertaining to Lucca or the Lucchese.
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jean1495
Venetian1554
Milanese1569
Pisan1570
Neapolitan1580
Salerne1598
Florentine1603
Salernitan1621
Amalfitan1625
Paduan1633
Pavian1633
Modenese1693
Veronese1757
Sienese1814
Torinese1864
Lucchese1883
Patavine1929
the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > Italy > [adjective] > parts of Italy > relating to Lucca
Lucchese1883
the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adjective] > Indo-European > Italic > of Romance languages > Italian > of dialects of
Piedmontese1676
Romanesco1826
Sicilian1842
Torinese1864
Lucchese1959
1883 Encycl. Brit. XV. 38/2 The most precious of the Lucchese relics, a cedar-wood crucifix, carved, according to the legend, by Nicodemus, and miraculously conveyed to Lucca in 782.
1884 A. J. C. Hare Cities Central Italy I. iii. 63 A member of a noble Lucchese family.
1905 Westm. Gaz. 5 Sept. 2/1 The sheep grazing around us belonged, the shepherd told me, to the Lucchese village of Montefegatesi.
1936 G. F.-H. Berkeley & J. Berkeley Italy in Making II. xvi. 243 He made money out of the Lucchese finances.
1959 Chambers's Encycl. VII. 792/2 Pascoli..borrowed many words from the dialect of the Lucchese peasants.
1959 Chambers's Encycl. XV. Index 629/1 Lucchese dialect.
1970 E. R. Johnson God Keepers (1971) xiv. 146 The choice between public opinion pressure and Lucchese string-pulling pressure.
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