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Della Crusca
Della Crusca Del"la Crus"ca A shortened form of Accademia della Crusca, an academy in Florence, Italy, founded in the 16th century, especially for conserving the purity of the Italian language. Note: The Accademia della Crusca (literally, academy of the bran or chaff) was so called in allusion to its chief object of bolting or purifying the national language.
Dellacruscan
Dellacruscan Del`la*crus"can, a. Of or pertaining to the Accademia della Crusca in Florence. The Dellacruscan School, a name given in satire to a class of affected English writers, most of whom lived in Florence, about a. d. 1785.
The Dellacruscan School
Dellacruscan Del`la*crus"can, a. Of or pertaining to the Accademia della Crusca in Florence. The Dellacruscan School, a name given in satire to a class of affected English writers, most of whom lived in Florence, about a. d. 1785.

Meaning of Crusca from wikipedia

- The Accademia della Crusca (Italian: [akkaˈdɛːmja della ˈkruska]; lit. 'Academy of the Bran'), generally abbreviated as La Crusca, is a Florence-based...
- degli Accademici della Crusca was the first dictionary of the Italian language, published in 1612 by the Accademia della Crusca. It was also only the second...
- Spain. In 1612 the first edition of the Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca, for Italian, was published. It served as the model for similar works in...
- Italian, and French. The name is taken from the Florentine Accademia della Crusca, an organization founded in 1583 to "purify" the Italian language. Bertie...
- dictionary Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca (compiled from 1591 to 1608) by the Accademia della Crusca and the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa,...
- (founded 1323), Sodalitas Litterarum Vistulana (founded 1488), Accademia della Crusca (founded 1583), Accademia dei Lincei (founded 1603), Académie Française...
- zucchini) is attested earlier and hence preferred by the Accademia della Crusca, the Italian language regulator. The feminine zucchina (plural: zucchine)...
- suffix should be pronounced—and has been criticized by the Accademia della Crusca. The president of the Accademia opposed its use, and the Accademia replied...
- main instrument to do so was the Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca. The Crusca long remained a private institution, criticizing and opposing the...
- was later endorsed as a model for Italian style by the Accademia della Crusca. Petrarch's sonnets were admired and imitated throughout Europe during the...