Word: baccana
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much as mentioned, but that his youth was at one time scarcely celibate is delicately implied by referring to "the blond mane of a young Russian girl" who called him "Benitouchka," and by a remark about the time when "he lived in a brolanda kept by a baccana. These are not really Italian words but coinages of our Italian emigrants, meaning a lodging house of the humblest kind kept by an attractive young woman...
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