PRIMAVERA Definition & Meaning

primavera

[ pree-muh-vair-uh ]

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noun

a central American tree, Cybistax donnell-smithii, of the bignonia family, having showy, tubular yellow flowers.
Also called white mahogany. the hard, yellowish-white wood of this tree, used for making furniture.

primavera

[ pree-muh-vair-uh; Italian pree-mah-ve-rah ]

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adjective

Italian Cooking.

prepared with a variety of chopped or minced vegetables:
pasta primavera.

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Origin of primavera¹

1890–95; < Spanish: literally, spring; so called from its early flowering; primaveral

Origin of primavera²

Apparently ellipsis from Italian alla primavera in the style of springtime; primaveral

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And she doesn't think she's alone in pushing the boundaries, saying she admires the likes of Sabrina Carpenter and Charli XCX, who she'll be headlining Primavera festival with this summer.

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Performing alongside them at Primavera Sound in Barcelona was an unmissable opportunity, Chappell says.

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Spain's Primavera has pulled a blinder, booking three of pop's biggest wavemakers - Charli XCX, Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan.

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Primavera Baltazar, who is incarcerated in Texas for an unrelated case, alleged that in the early 1990s Batanero and another deputy — former Sheriff Alex Villanueva — pulled up on a group of teens in Belvedere Park and assaulted them for loitering, one of them allegedly kicking a pregnant teen in the process.

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He moved to a software firm called Primavera which he helped build up, and made his first millions after it was sold to Oracle: he had taken an equity stake.

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