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cassone

[ kuh-soh-nee; Italian kahs-saw-ne ]

noun

plural cassoni
  1. a large Italian chest of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, usually highly ornamented.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of cassone1

1880–85; < Italian, equivalent to cass ( a ) box ( case 2 ) + -one augmentative suffix
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The Italian coast guard on Sunday recovered a man’s body from a shipwreck of a rubber dinghy a day earlier near Marettimo, Italian state TV quoted a Trapani-based port official, Gulgielmo Cassone, as saying.

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That’s one reason it’s important to apply repellent carefully to all exposed skin when you want to avoid ticks, says Bryan Cassone, an associate professor of biology at Brandon University in Manitoba.

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“It may have been a joint effort,” says Antonio Cassone, professor emeritus of medical microbiology at the University of Perugia.

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“The expectation is that we will have a protective vaccine. Probably more than one,” said Antonio Cassone, the former head of the infectious-disease department at Italy’s national health institute.

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The cassone, or Italian chest, not only encloses emptiness in its interior space, but it also heightens the impression that the painting is an open window into the world of Carnevale’s city.

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