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tivoli
/ˈtɪ.və.li/
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What does tivoli mean?
noun
- A game resembling bagatelle, played on a special oblong board or table with a curved upper end, a set of numbered compartments at the lower end, side alleys, and the surface studded with pins and sometimes furnished with numbered depressions or cups.
proper noun
- An ancient city in the province of Rome, Lazio, Italy.
- An eastern suburb of Cork, County Cork, Ireland (Irish grid ref W 7072).
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proper noun
- A town in Grenada.
- A village in the town of Red Hook, Dutchess County, New York, United States.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈtɪ.və.li/
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There is squalid Tivoli, with the river Anio, diverted from its course, and plunging down, headlong, some eighty feet in search of it.
M. Garnerin was engaged to make a spectacular ascent from Tivoli at Paris, leaving the grounds at night with attached lamps illuminating his balloon.
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Lat., ‘lapis Tiburtinus’, found near Tibur, now Tivoli.
But three years previously he had been instructed to make a balloon of an original form, which should ascend in honour of the Turkish ambassador at the garden of Tivoli.
Without doors all is pleasing: there is a beautiful (artificial) river, with a fine semicircular wood overlooking it, and the temple of Tivoli placed happily on a rising towards the end.