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WordInfo
Morphology
Lemmata
Forms: tela (data provider: donatus-sup), tele (data provider: donatus-sup)
Dictionary
Baretti: A dictionary of the English and Italian languages
Tél-a, s. f. dim. Tél-étta, Tél-úccia,
1. linen or cottoncloth. Tesser della —, to weave cloth. Or lire della —, to warp cloth. Imbianchire della —,to bleach cloth. — d'Olanda o di Cambraja,holland, cambric. — di Russia, Russian duck. — d'oro o d'argento, tissue, gold or silver tissue. — di ragno, a cobweb. Mercante d<*> —, a linen draper. Nè donna nè — non comprar al lume di candela, buy neither a woman nor cloth by candle-light. La corporea —, the human frame. La — della vita, the course of one's life. A dirvi il tutto sarrebbe una —, it would be a long story to tell you all; 2. (met.)work, labour; 3. state of a thing or its condition;4. substance, subject; 5. snare; 6. a kind of cheese; 7. a kind of tapestry; 8. a picture, painting, canvass. — giudiciaria, the progress of a law suit.
Florio: a worlde of wordes, or most copious, dictionarie in Italian and English
tela: the liste within which they run at tilt. Also the toyle vsed in hunting.
