BRIDE OF THE SEA
\bɹˈa͡ɪd ɒvðə sˈiː], \bɹˈaɪd ɒvðə sˈiː], \b_ɹ_ˈaɪ_d ɒ_v_ð_ə s_ˈiː]\
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Venice, whose doges ever year, on Ascension Day, were married to the Adriatic, throwing a ring into the sea; on the first occasion, as a privilege, granted by Pope Alexander III., n77, when the League of Lombardy had defeated the Emperor Frederic Barbarossa.
By Henry Percy Smith
Word of the day
basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).