Word Meanings - MILANESE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to Milan in Italy, or to its inhabitants. -- n. sing. & pl.

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• MILANESE
  Of or pertaining to Milan in Italy, or to its inhabitants. -- n. sing. & pl.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• DEMILANCE
  A light lance; a short spear; a half pike; also, a demilancer.
• DEMILANCER
  A soldier of light cavalry of the 16th century, who carried a demilance.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach