biltate

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Italian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /bilˈta.te/
  • Rhymes: -ate
  • Hyphenation: bil‧tà‧te

Noun[edit]

biltate f (plural biltati)

  1. (obsolete) Alternative form of beltà (beauty)
    • c. 1307, Dante Alighieri, “Trattato terzo, Capitolo XV [Third treatise, Chapter 15]”, in Convivio [The Banquet]‎[1], Florence: Le Monnier, published 1964, section 13:
      Però dice: qual donna, cioè quale anima, sente sua biltate biasimare per non parere quale parere si conviene, miri in questo essemplo.
      Therefore it says that every woman (that is, every soul) who hears her beauty slighted for not appearing as it ought to appear should gaze upon this example.

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