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‖ Mille Miglia|ˈmille ˈmiʎʎa|
[It., lit. ‘a thousand miles’.]
The name of a sports-car race run over approx. one thousand miles of roads in Italy from 1927 to 1957; also fig.
1933B. Lyndon Combat: Motor Racing Hist. viii. 133 The entry list suggested that there would be a merciless fight between the Bugatti team and the Alfa-Romeos, which had just won the Mille Miglia. 1957S. Moss In Track of Speed ii. 27 The Italians had made a real Roman holiday of the Mille Miglia and..had come to regard themselves as almost unbeatable. 1963P. Drackett Motor Rallying v. 75 The galloping Gaul's remarkable record included first in the Alpine and German and second in the Mille Miglia. 1966W. Court Power & Glory iii. xviii. 166/1 The Mille Miglia, run in traditional form on 23 occasions between 1927 and 1957, was a..throw back to the days that had ended with Paris–Madrid. 1969J. Leasor They don't make them like that any More i. 1 The pinheaded nutters in the Minis..roared about as though they were overtaking each other in the Mille Miglia. 1970M. O'Brine Crambo xvii. 77 He took a four-berth cabin..that..had cockroaches doing a Mille Miglia around the wash-basin. |