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capri
/ˈkæpɹi/
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What does capri mean?
noun
- A deep shade of sky blue between cyan and azure.
- Used in capri pants.
proper noun
- An island in the Bay of Naples; part of Campania.
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proper noun
- Wine produced on the island of Capri, commonly a light dry white wine.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈkæpɹi/
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To the right lay Castellamare, Sorrento, and the island of Capri.
Capri, the retreat of Tiberius, was of easy access.
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A man was starving in Capri; He moved his eyes and looked at me; I felt his gaze, I heard his moan, And knew his hunger as my own.
Capri—once made odious by the deified beast Tiberius—Ischia, Procida, and the thousand distant beauties of the Bay, lie in the blue sea yonder, changing in the mist and sunshine twenty times a-day: now close at hand, now far off, now unseen.
According to Suetonius, the Emperor Augustus possessed in his palace on the Palatine Hill a considerable collection of hatchets of different kinds of rock, nearly all of them found in the island of Capri, and which were to their royal owner the weapons of the heroes of mythology.