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Word: Macchia
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
1920s; earliest use found in Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), writer. From Corsican macchia thicket (lit. ‘spot’, after the spotted appearance of hillsides dotted with such thickets) from classical Latin macula
Definition:
maquis.
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