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Fontane

/ ɔˈٲːə /

noun

  1. FontaneTheodor18191898MGermanWRITING: novelistWRITING: journalist Theodor (ˈteodoːr). 1819–98, German novelist and journalist; his novels include Vor dem Sturm (1878) and Effi Briest (1898)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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In Rome, he visited San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane: a chapel designed by Francesco Borromini that’s one of the prizes of Baroque architecture, topped by an oval dome.

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The Fontane Sisters, too, have that moon, June, spoon feeling.

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“I just had this interest in making, for lack of a better term, a children’s movie that has a more demented adult story to it,” West said, seated beside Goth in a cottage at the Albergo Quattro Fontane on the Lido.

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Any of the novels of Theodor Fontane, the great 19th century writer.

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When Don Corleone, both a literal and symbolic patriarch, hits and mocks his godson Johnny Fontane for breaking down in tears over his crumbling career, it reminds us of how tenuous the male self-image must be.

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