单词 | the toe of italy |
释义 | > as lemmasthe toe of Italy f. In full the toe of Italy. The south-western extremity of that country. Cf. heel n.1 12. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > Italy > [noun] > southern Italy > heel or toe of Italy the heel of Italy1658 the toe of Italy1941 1894 A. J. Evans in Freeman Sicily IV. 234 The coinage of Syracuse had now become the only coinage for the whole of Greek Sicily, and even for the toe of Italy. 1941 C. Milburn Diary 15 Feb. (1979) 83 We have dropped parachutists..on Italy's toe..near Brindisi. 1974 Times 7 Jan. 3 The boy had been kept in various hideouts in the southwestern ‘toe’ of Italy. 1979 R. Perry Bishop's Pawn iv. 68 The advancing Allied armies..forced themselves northwards from the toe of Italy. < as lemmas |
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