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 Translation for 'gondolier' from English to Esperanto
NOUN   a gondolier | gondoliers
SYNO gondolier | gondoliere
gondolisto {noun}gondolier
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Translation for 'gondolier' from English to Esperanto

gondolier
gondolisto {noun}
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Usage Examples English
  • A gondolier is a Venetian boatman who propels a gondola.
  • In August 2010, Giorgia Boscolo became Venice's first fully licensed female gondolier.
  • In 1908, John Scarpa, an Italian gondolier, put together the first Christmas lights boat parade in Newport Harbor. This started a long, yearly tradition that has lasted to this day.
  • Franz Liszt based the Canzone from the "Années de pèlerinage", supplement "Venezia e Napoli", on the offstage gondolier's song "Nessun maggior dolore" from this opera.
  • A barcarolle is characterized by a rhythm reminiscent of the gondolier's stroke, almost invariably in 6/8 meter at a moderate tempo.

  • The reticent slow movement begins in the rhythm of a barcarolle, the violin imitating the singing of a Venetian gondolier, "sighing languorously above the heartbeat of repeated chords".
  • A young Bostonian woman visiting Venice with her overbearing mother, quickly goes tired of her fellow American tourists and begins to fixate on a handsome gondolier she sees.
  • She requests a gondolier to sing for her on her royal boat.
  • Tumino worked for several years as a gondoliere in Venice, which provided the setting for American Gondolier (2012).
  • Tita was a gondolier and it was in that capacity that he first entered Lord Byron's service in 1818 during Byron's sojourn in Venice.

  • Brown's close friend Antonio Salin, a gondolier, also lived in the house with his wife and family.
  • A dictionary collector, Shea had already read "Webster's Second International Dictionary" in the 1990s. During his life, he has worked as a gondolier, a mover, and a busker.
  • Each fórcola is a unique piece since it is specifically designed for its personal "gondolier" (rower of gondolas), according to his height and rowing needs: a rule specifies that the external gondolier's arm must not go over the chin.
  • "Barcarole" in music shares the same etymology, being originally a folk song sung by Venetian gondolier and derived from "barca" — "boat" in Italian, or in Late Latin.
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