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conversazione

[ kon-ver-saht-see-oh-nee; Italian kawn-ver-sah-tsyaw-ne ]

noun

plural conversaziones, conversazioni
  1. a gathering for conversation and discussion, especially about the arts or literature.


conversazione

/ ˌkɒnvəˌsætsɪˈəʊnɪ; konversatˈtsjone /

noun

  1. a social gathering for discussion of the arts, literature, etc
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of conversazione1

First recorded in 1740–50; from Italian; literally, “conversation, meeting to hold a conversationâ€; conversation ( def )
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of conversazione1

C18: literally: conversation
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Everybody determined that it should make up in brilliance what it lacked in punctuality, and all private conversaziones, routs, and Quadrille parties were, by general consent, postponed.

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He held conversaziones in the servants' hall after dinner, while I slept balmily in front of the drawing-room fire.

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Went to a dinner-party or two, theatres, to hear Dickens read, a concert, conversazione and receptions, seeing English society, or rather one class of it, and liking what I saw.

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You will hear it said at a ladies' working party, "What a shame of the Catholics to take our conversazione night for their concert!"

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After making obeisance to General Dolls, these doggies would form themselves into a conversazione, and go promenading round the rose-trees in twos and twos.

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