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Word: picciotti (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Usage:

...scene is Palermo, Sicily, where for seven months a Mafia trial that dwarfs the various legal proceedings in New York has been under way. In the homeland of the Cosa Nostra, 474 alleged Mafiosi, whose ranks range from the reputed "Boss of Bosses," Luciano Liggio, to a corps of picciotti, or soldiers, are in the dock for crimes as high as assassination and as low as auto theft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meanwhile, in Palermo . . . | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

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