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Definition of Fantoccini
1. n. pl. Puppets caused to perform evolutions or dramatic scenes by means of machinery; also, the representations in which they are used.
Definition of Fantoccini
1. Noun. Puppets caused to perform dramatic scenes by means of machinery. ¹
2. Noun. The puppet shows in which they are used. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fantoccini
1. [n]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fantoccini
Literary usage of Fantoccini
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Voyages historiques et littéraires en Italie: pendant les années 1826, 1827 by New York Magdalen Society, Antoine Claude Pasquin Valery (1831)
"CES détails sur la scène italienne me paraîtraient encore plus incomplets, si je
ne disais rien des fantoccini, qui sont, j'ose à peine l'avouer, ..."
2. Six Months in Italy by George Stillman Hillard (1881)
"THEATRE OF THE fantoccini. This is a small theatre in which the performances are
by puppets about three feet high ; the voices bemg supplied by persons ..."
3. London by Charles Knight (1851)
"Punch and the fantoccini arc the only living representations of the puppets.
But Punch is still with us and of us. The police legislators tried to ..."
4. Philosophy in Sport Made Science in Earnest: Being an Attempt to Implant in by John Ayrton Paris (1853)
"PUNCH AND THE fantoccini.—AN ANTIQUARIAN DISCUSSION OF GRAVE IMPORTANCE.— ORIGIN
OF THE BRIDE CAKE.—AN INTERVIEW WITH NED HOPKINS, DURING WHICH HE DISPLAYED ..."
5. Glossary of Terms and Phrases by Henry Percy Smith (1883)
"fantoccini. [It.] Puppets which move by machinery so as to act dramatic scenes ;
a set of marionettes. Fan vaulting. (Arch.) A form of vaulting, ..."
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