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Italian
Pronunciation
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.