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Italian
Etymology
Verb-object compound, composed of asciuga (“to dry”) + mano (“hand”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aʃˌʃu.ɡaˈma.no/[1]
- Rhymes: -ano
- Hyphenation: a‧sciu‧ga‧mà‧no
Noun
asciugamano m (plural asciugamani)
- hand towel
1947, Primo Levi, “L'ultimo”, in Se questo è un uomo [If This Is a Man], Torino: Einaudi, published 1987, →ISBN, page 185:Bisogno sapere inoltre […] che per tutti noi Häftlinge la doccia è una faccenda assai sgradevole per molte ragioni (l'acqua gliatoio, non abbiamo asciugamani, non abbiamo sapone, e durante la forzata assenza è facile essere derubati).- I need to know, moreover, that for all of us Häftlinge showering is a very unpleasant task for many reasons (the water, we do not have hand towels, we do not have soap, and during the forced absence it is easy to be robbed.
References
- ^ asciugamano in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication