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Definition of Poppa
1. papa [n -S] - See also: papa
Lexicographical Neighbors of Poppa
Literary usage of Poppa
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Fiction: Being a Critical Account of the Most Celebrated by John Colin Dunlop (1842)
"Ma niuno segnale," says the former, " da potere rapportare le vide, fuori che
UDO che ella n' havea sotto la sinistra poppa ; cio era un neo, ..."
2. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"... virer vent arrière, It virare in poppa.— Rod ing. In the sense of a fish-pond
the word may be confounded with OE. ..."
3. Viaggi Di Pietro Della Valle, Il Pellegrino: Descritti Da Lui Medesimo in by Pietro Della Valle (1843)
"... senza toccar più terra e con le tramontane in poppa, che in quel tempo sogliono
regnare, é solito di arrivarvi in tre o quattro giorni al più. ..."
4. A New Dictionary of the Italian and English Languages: Based Upon that of by Giuseppe Marco Antonio Baretti, John Davenport, Guglielmo Comelati (1854)
"parle di die'tro, parle di poppa, f. Sternal, a. (t. d'Anat. ... a poppa. Square —
a poppa quadra, ..."
5. The English Illustrated Magazine (1904)
"So 1 said at last, 'Gaspard must settle that with poppa.' But when I gave poppa
to understand something of the situation, and how he must interview the ..."
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