Word: contrada
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Wearing the traditional costumes and insignia of their contrada, they circle the piazza three times, inspired by the cheering crowd...
...winning horse grants his contrada the city's highest honor for the year...
...Sienese wait in anticipation of the event all year. It transforms them from friends and neighbors to ruthless foes. They are no longer citizens of Siena but devoted members of their contrada. Their mission is not only to win, but above all, to prevent any of the other contrade from winning...
Both Mormando and Debbie Contrada, a teacher in Italie E who won the prize last year as a teacher in Italian C, spent their award doing dissertation research in Italy and brushing up on their spoken Italian
Faction v. Faction. Soon afterward, a new statue appeared on Don Silvio's lawn -a large toad with a human head. Carmine Guarino saw it and made the mistake of complaining in public. Soon all of Contrada was flocking to the Capuana estate to look at the new portrait and laugh at its subject. Professor Guarino writhed in an agony of shame. Silvio broke precedent by driving into the village to write, "Life can be beautiful," in bold, black letters on the side of his desecrated tomb. Carmine promptly brought suit for defamation of character...