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Lucchese, n. and a.|luːˈkɪz, luːˈkeɪsɪ| Also Luquesse. Pl. same or Lucchesi. [a. It. Lucchese, f. Lucca + -ese -ese.] A. n. †a. A dialect of Italian once spoken in the city or (former) province of Lucca in north-west Tuscany. Obs. exc. hist. b. A native or inhabitant of Lucca.
1642J. Howell Instructions for Forreine Travell xi. 138 These varieties of Dialects in France and Spaine, are farre less in number to those of Italy... There is in Italy..the Toscan, the Roman, the Venetian, the Neapolitan, the Calabrese, the Genovese, the Luquesse..and others. 1660E. Warcupp tr. Schottus' Italy i. 135 In 1303 the Lucchesi colleagued with the Florentines against the Pistoiesi. 1886W. D. Howells Tuscan Cities 230 He might as well be a Lucchese. 1912J. Sully Italian Trav. Sketches x. 237 The Torre..rebuilt by the Lucchesi... During this spell of comparative calm..the Lucchesi took down the tower. 1965E. Whelpton Florence & Tuscany ix. 112 The Lucchese got rid of the Pisans when Castruccio Castracane became the absolute ruler of their city. B. adj. Of or pertaining to Lucca or the Lucchese.
1883Encycl. Brit. XV. 38/2 The most precious of the Lucchese relics, a cedar-wood crucifix, carved, according to the legend, by Nicodemus, and miraculously conveyed to Lucca in 782. 1884A. J. C. Hare Cities Central Italy I. iii. 63 A member of a noble Lucchese family. 1905Westm. Gaz. 5 Sept. 2/1 The sheep grazing around us belonged, the shepherd told me, to the Lucchese village of Montefegatesi. 1936G. F.-H. & J. Berkeley Italy in Making II. xvi. 243 He made money out of the Lucchese finances. 1959Chambers's Encycl. VII. 792/2 Pascoli..borrowed many words from the dialect of the Lucchese peasants. Ibid. XV. 629/1 (Index) Lucchese dialect. 1970E. R. Johnson God Keepers (1971) xiv. 146 The choice between public opinion pressure and Lucchese string-pulling pressure. |