Definition of Tasso

1. Noun. Italian poet who wrote an epic poem about the capture of Jerusalem during the First Crusade (1544-1595).

Exact synonyms: Torquato Tasso
Generic synonyms: Poet

Definition of Tasso

1. Noun. (''Louisiana'') A particular style of pickled pork. ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Tasso

tast
tastable
tastant
tastants
taste
taste-maker
taste-tester
taste blindness
taste bud
taste buds
taste bulb
taste cell
taste cells

Literary usage of Tasso

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and Mythology by Joseph Thomas (1901)
"Medid in the patronage of literature and art There Tasso wrote a number of ... Tasso solicited permission to return to Ferrara by a letter to Alfonso, ..."

2. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1893)
"Johnson has inserted it in " Broome's Life." t He had the palsy at that time. ARIOSTO AND Tasso IT surprises one to find among the literary Italians ..."

3. A Concordance to the English Poems of Thomas Gray by Albert Stanburrough Cook, Concordance Society (1908)
"The birth of rivers riseing to their course, Tasso 52. How riseing winds the face of Ocean sweep. ... When thwart the road a River roll'd its flood Tasso 7. ..."

4. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (1858)
"ARIOSTO AND Tasso. IT surprises one to find among the literary Italians the merits of Ariosto most keenly disputed: slaves to classical authority, ..."

5. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1905)
"Tasso, involved in the same condemnation, lost all his property. His wife died; and he with difficulty obtained the custody of his son Torquato, ..."

6. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1905)
"Tasso, involved in the same condemnation, lost all his property. His wife died; and he with difficulty obtained the custody of his son Torquato, ..."

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