genoa
IPA: dʒˈɛnoʊʌ
Root Word: Genoa
noun
- A province of Liguria, Italy.
- The capital city of Liguria, Italy, and also of the province of Genoa.
- A town in the Shire of East Gippsland, Victoria, Australia.
- A number of places in the United States:
- An unincorporated community in Miller County, Arkansas.
- A small statutory town in Lincoln County, Colorado.
- A city in DeKalb County, Illinois.
- An unincorporated community in Olmsted County, Minnesota.
- A small city in Nance County, Nebraska.
- An unincorporated town in Douglas County, Nevada.
- A town in Cayuga County, New York.
- A village in Ottawa County, Ohio.
- The former name of Perry Heights, an unincorporated community in Stark County, Ohio.
- A neighbourhood of the city of Houston, Texas.
- A town and village therein, in Vernon County, Wisconsin. Former name of village: Bad Axe.
- Four townships, in Illinois, Michigan, Nebraska and Ohio, listed under Genoa Township.
- (historical) a maritime republic in northwestern Italy that existed from the 11th century until its disestablishment in 1797 when Napoleon formed the Ligurian Republic, a client state; Genoa briefly regained independence in 1814 before becoming quickly annexed by the Kingdom of Sardinia in 1815.
- Genoa cake.
- (nautical) A staysail that resembles a jib but extends aft beyond the mast.
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Examples of "genoa" in Sentences
- It is located in the province of Genoa.
- Corsica was a Genoa island in this age.
- It is a suffragan of the archdiocese of Genoa.
- He decorated the church of the Magdalen in Genoa.
- The latter sold the fief to the Republic of Genoa in 1198.
- They painted a 'Continence of Scipio' for a palace in Genoa.
- The Countess de Boigne met her in Genoa and found her untidy and vulgar.
- He was born in Genoa into the well to do family of his father Pellegrino.
- Confiding in the King's neutrality, he had set sail from Genoa to Palermo.
- An overlapping jib is called a genoa jib or simply a genoa see illustration .
- “When I looked back and saw the yacht, the genoa was aback, and that would stop the yacht.”
- She was lying abeam to the seas, two hundred yards away, her genoa aback and the main flapping free.
- The only variation I made was that I sauteed finely chopped genoa salami in butter,before I threw it into the pasta.
- Eager Earthsea Warriors jumped to their winches and, one by one, genoa, main and midden sails vanished into hollow booms.
- Perhaps the combination of genoa salami, mortadella, coppacola, ham, and prosciutto makes this “the mother” of all sandwiches.
- Lance was taking the genoa down on the yacht, and someone, probably Monica, was lying on top of it, trying to keep it from blowing overboard.
- Ron suggests they put out a very small amount of genoa a large jib that overlaps the mast but Tom thinks that will only rip as the staysail did.
- Anonymous said ... great job, expecially for me: i am writing from genoa and i am a Genoa supporter ..... can you tell me which font did you use for the numbers?
- The first course soon followed, consisting of a house-cured charcuterie with tasso, mortadella, pepperoni, capicola, genoa salami, and duck for 'song and a veal sweetbread and artichoke meuniere for me.
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