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Ferrara en · NOUN
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian Ferrara.
Meanings
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(historical) An Andrea Ferrara sword; (generally) a broadsword.
Perry […] returned upon his disarmed foe, and brandishing his Ferrara, threatened to make him shorter by the head, if he would not immediately crave quarter, and yield.
1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
Forms
Ferrara en · PROPN
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian Ferrara.
Meanings
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A province of Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
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City, archbishopric and capital of Ferrara.
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A surname from Italian.
As a result, men turn to the women in their lives to fulfill their emotional needs. Ferrara and her coauthor are not the first to suggest that women bear the burden of mankeeping (although they did coin the term).
2024 October 23, Kim Elsesser, “Mankeeping: How Shrinking Male Social Networks May Burden Women”, in Forbes:
Translations (10)
egl Frêra (province) · egl Frêra (city, archbishopric and capital) · fr Ferrare (city, archbishopric and capital) · fr Ferrare (province) · cmn 費拉拉 /费拉拉 (city, archbishopric and capital) · mr फेर्रारा (city, archbishopric and capital) · mr फेर्रारा (province) · cmn 費拉拉 /费拉拉 (province) · it Ferrara (province) · it Ferrara (city, archbishopric and capital)