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0 - il Folletto: Il tipico folletto è stravagante e spensierato, fa spesso scherzi o azioni incomprensibili ed è
completamente distaccato dalle preoccupazioni materiali.

significato: stranezza, infantilismo, spensieratezza, vacanza, distacco dalle preoccupazioni materiali, follia

I can only guess at Italian, but il folletto seems to be prone to folly.

And here's what I got (nothing) from Merriam-Webster:

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Suggestions for folletto:

1. Flotow
2. folates
3. feuilleton
4. folate
5. foulest
6. fullest
7. -fullest
8. Feuillet
9. flota
10. flutey



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dysphemism is an expression with connotations that are offensive


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How this word got stretched to Cole Porter tune is a very long story.
Beguines and Beghards, members of certain Roman Catholic religious communities for women (Beguines) and men (Beghards) prominent in northwestern Europe from the 12th to the 14th century. They differed from monks and nuns in that most did not take permanent vows, promising only to do good works and not to marry as long as they lived in the community.



"Beguines and Beghards," Microsoft(R) Encarta(R) 98 Encyclopedia. (c) 1993-1997 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.


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Referring to a mythological king Ogyges of Attica or Boethia, in whose reign a great flood occurred.


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A biological taxonomic term for marine fishes,e.g. spiny eels.


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satori
n.
5Jpn, nominal form of satoru, to understand the truth of6 spiritual enlightenment or illumination: term used esp. in Zen Buddhism



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Like porridge. Also used in medical descriptions of various yucky semisolids.


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he American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

peripteral


SYLLABICATION:
pe·rip·ter·al
PRONUNCIATION:
p-rptr-l
ADJECTIVE:
Architecture Having a single row of columns on all sides.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin peripteros, from Greek : peri-, peri- + pteron, wing; see pet- in
Appendix I.


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FLYING SPICATTO = like regular spiccatto in that the bow bounces, but instead of remaining
stationary-the bow is drawn along the strings as it is bounced producing a virtuoso effect. S McLeod


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apolaustic. a. caring only for pleasure.


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