tivoli
IPA: tˈɪvʌɫi
Root Word: Tivoli
noun
- An ancient city in the province of Rome, Lazio, Italy.
- A town in Grenada.
- A game resembling bagatelle, played on a special oblong board or table with a curved upper end, a set of numbered compartments at the lower end, side alleys, and the surface studded with pins and sometimes furnished with numbered depressions or cups.
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Examples of "tivoli" in Sentences
- "Perhaps you would like to spend it for tivoli beer," she suggested.
- He had got up a plate of crackers and two bottles of tivoli, and was opening the first.
- "I tell you," said Bartley to Marcia, "I shall stick to tivoli after this, religiously."
- In the mean time he tried a new kind of beer, -- Norwegian beer, which he found a little lighter even than tivoli.
- The center for the crowd was a table not unlike a small billiard table or, saving the absence of pins, a tivoli table such as enjoyed by children.
- He attributed the fat on his ribs to the tivoli; perhaps it was also owing in some degree to a good conscience, which is a much easier thing to keep than people imagine.
- He joked about the three fingers of fat on his ribs, and frankly guessed it was the beer that did it; at such times he said that perhaps he should have to cut down on his tivoli.
- For those determined to stay out until the rooster crows (read: not me), Tivoli (Tel: 0900-2358486, www. tivoli.nl) -- a dual-level club located at the end of the hopping expanse of bars -- entertains until the wee hours of the morning.
- He had never been tipsy but once in his life, and he considered that he had repented and atoned for that enough, especially as nothing had ever come of it; but sometimes he thought he might be over-doing the beer; yes, he thought he must cut down on the tivoli; he was getting ridiculously fat.
- He was rather particular about his beer, which he had sent in by the gross, -- it came cheaper that way; after trying both the Cincinnati and the Milwaukee lagers, and making a cursory test of the Boston brand, he had settled down upon the American tivoli; it was cheap, and you could drink a couple of bottles without feeling it.
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