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BOCCACCIO
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• BOCCACCIO (noun)
The noun BOCCACCIO has 1 sense:
1. Italian poet (born in France) (1313-1375)
Familiarity information: BOCCACCIO used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
Italian poet (born in France) (1313-1375)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Boccaccio; Giovanni Boccaccio
Instance hypernyms:
poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))
Context examples
He is talking to young Lord Blandford who gave £1800 for a Boccaccio the other day.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And he went about it in a way that reminded me of a story out of Boccaccio.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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