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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bjan.t͡ʃiˈkan.te/
- Rhymes: -ante
- Hyphenation: bian‧ci‧càn‧te
Participle
biancicante (plural biancicanti)
- present participle of biancicare
Adjective
biancicante (plural biancicanti)
- (literary) whitish
- Synonyms: biancastro, (uncommon) biancheggiante, bianchiccio, (literary, archaic) biancoso
- Antonyms: nerastro, (literary) nereggiante, (uncommon) nericcio, (literary, rare) nerigno, nerognolo
c. 1260s, Brunetto Latini, chapter III (chapter 3), in Il tesoretto [The little treasure]; collected in Raccolta di rime antiche toscane, volume 1, Palermo: Giuseppe Assenzio, 1817, page 17:Li belli occhi, e le ciglia,
E le labbra vermiglia,
E lo naso affilato,
E lo dente argentato,
La gola biancicante,
E l’altre beltà tante- The beautiful eyes, and eyelashes, and the crimson lips, and the thin nose, and the silvery teeth, the white neck, and the many other beauties
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Further reading
- biancicante in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana