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Terms in Italian 9531-9540 of 10470

San Martino della Battaglia

/sahn mahr-TEE-noh dehl-lah baht-TAH'lyah/
[Italian]

Well regarded white wine produced from Tocai grapes around the village of the same name in Lombardy.

San Pellegrino ®

/sahn pehl-leh-GREE-noh/
[Italian]

Slightly bitter, non-alcoholic apéritif. It is also a bottled water.

San Pellegrino ®

/sahn pehl-leh-GREE-noh/
[Italian]

A Brand name of a bottled mineral water, slightly sparkling and without the saltiness of many bottled waters. It is also an apéritif.

San Pietro

/sahn PYEH-troh/
[Italian]

"Saint Peter." John Dory. A high quality, plump, flattish fish with a golden sheen, with an ugly but amiable face. It was first associated with Zeus, then with St Peter, as evidenced by the ‘finger marks’ left by him when he picked it up to remove a coin from its mouth to pay some taxes.

sansa (di olio)

/SAHN-sah/
[Italian]

When olives are crushed and milled there is a greasy, messy residue of stones called the sansa. It produces "olio di sansa" which, after treatment with some kind of acid, also counts as poor grade olive oil which may be mixed with some of the poorer cooking oils. And the final, totally squeezed and crushed remnants can be used as fertiliser.

San Secondo

/sahn seh-KOHN-doh/
[Italian]

A village near Parma in Emilia-Romagna.

San Severo

/sahn seh-VEH-roh/
[Italian]

A town producing red, white and rosé wines in Puglia.

Santa Chiara

/SAHN-tah KYAH-rah/
[Italian]

Saint Claire

Santa Lucia

/SAHN-tah loo-CHEE-ah/
[Italian]

The feast of Santa Lucia is celebrated on 13 December each year.

Santa Maddelena

/SAHN-tah mahd-dah-LEH-nah/
[Italian]

A renowned red wine of Trentino-Alto Adige.