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Correggio

Definition: Correggio

Correggio

Noun

1. Italian painter noted for his use of chiaroscuro and perspective (1494-1534).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Correggio" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1822. (references)


Specialty Definition: Correggio

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Literature

Correggio The Correggio of sculptors. Jean Goujon, who was slain in the massacre of St. Bartholomew. (1510-1572.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Correggio

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Correggio is the name of a town in Italy and of a famous painter who was born there.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Correggio."

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Synonym: Correggio

Synonym: Antonio Allegri da Correggio (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Correggio

Specialty definitions using "Correggio": Leda and the SwanPainters and Artists, Picture Galleries. (references)

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Modern Usage: Correggio

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Incontro col Correggio (1947)

La Cupola del Duomo (Il Correggio) (1946)

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Commercial Usage: Correggio

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Books

  • La più bella di tutte : la cupola del Correggio nel duomo di Parma (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Image Slideshow: Correggio

Illustrations:
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Computer Images:
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Photo Album: Correggio

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Correggio / engraved by H. Meyer. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Usage Frequency: Correggio

"Correggio" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Correggio" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%9117,287

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Correggio

Expression using "Correggio": Antonio Allegri da Correggio. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Correggio

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

correggio

32

argentini correggio ivano

5

assumption correggio virgin

2
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Anagrams: Correggio

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-g-g-i-o-o-r-r"

-2 letters: georgic.

-3 letters: corrie, gooier, gorger, gorier, grocer, orrice, rigger.

-4 letters: cooer, corer, corgi, crier, crore, gorge, grego, oorie, orgic, rerig, ricer, rigor, roger.

-5 letters: cero, cire, coir, core, ergo, giro, goer, gogo, gore, grig, grog, ogre, rice.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-g-g-i-o-o-r-r"
 

+5 letters: choreographing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Correggio


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 6F 72 72 65 67 67 69 6F

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    ---    .-.    .-.    .    --.    --.    ..    ---

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01101111 01110010 01110010 01100101 01100111 01100111 01101001 01101111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#111 &#114 &#114 &#101 &#103 &#103 &#105 &#111

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 006F 0072 0072 0065 0067 0067 0069 006F

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

378184847173737581

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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