Definition of Maremmas

1. maremma [n] - See also: maremma

Lexicographical Neighbors of Maremmas

mardy
mardying
mare
mare's-nest
mare's-tail
mare's nest
mare's nests
mare's tail
mare clausum
mare liberum
mare nostrum
mareblob
marecottite
mareel
maremma
maremmas (current term)
maremme
marena
mareogram
mareograph
mareographic
mares
mares' tails
mareschal
mareschals
marfan syndrome
marfanoid
marg
margarate
margarates

Literary usage of Maremmas

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

1. The Italian Emigration of Our Times by Robert Franz Foerster (1919)
"Woodcutters and charcoal burners go into Sardinia and the Roman and Tuscan maremmas. The herdsmen take their summer charges down to the plains. ..."

2. Harvard Economic Studies by Harvard University Dept. of Economics (1919)
"Woodcutters and charcoal burners go into Sardinia and the Roman and Tuscan maremmas. The herdsmen take their summer charges ..."

3. Edgar Quinet: His Early Life and Writings by Richard Heath (1881)
"And when to all these phantoms were joined those born of the hungry heart of a youthful soul wandering in these maremmas, it was indeed too much. ..."

4. Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain by John Ruskin (1873)
"... not merely to mitigate inundations—and, deadliest of inundations, because perpetual—maremmas; but to change them into national banks instead of debts. ..."

5. An Introduction to Geology by William Berryman Scott (1907)
"... were cut off from the sea by bars, the lagoons thus formed were transformed into swamp, the dreaded maremmas, which in their turn were filled in. ..."

6. Journal of the Statistical Society of London by Statistical Society (Great Britain) (1852)
"No race of men, living in maremmas, marshes, deltas, low sea-coasts, low river-sides, could have acquired or wielded the power of this empire. terrible ..."

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