cicala

Definitions

1. A cicada.
2. A surname from Italian.

Equivalents

Examples

“The shrill cicalas, people of the pine, / Making their summer lives one ceaseless song […]”

“She recalled the old hall, with its storied frescoes—the woods, where so many mornings had passed so happily away—the little river, where they used to launch⟳ their light⟳ boats, made of the green rushes which grew beside; she recalled the blithe chirp of the cicala in the fragrant grass—and the gleam of the fire-flies, glittering by twilight amid the boughs of the myrtle.”

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