veltra

Italian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈvɛl.tra/
Rhymes: -ɛltra
Hyphenation: vèl‧tra

Noun

veltra f (plural veltre) (literary, rare)

female equivalent of veltro (“greyhound”)
- 1349–1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Giornata quarta – Novella sesta”, in Decameron; republished as Aldo Francesco Massera, editor, Il Decameron‎, Bari: Laterza, 1927:
  Ed appresso questo, mi pareva che […] uscisse non so di che parte una veltra nera come carbone, […]
  And presently meseemed that there came forth, I knew not whence, a greyhound bitch, black as coal.

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