Crossword-Solution: DESTRA
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DESTRA | anagram | DAREST, DATERS, DERATS, ERSTAD, STARED, STRADE, STRAED, TARDES, TRADES, TREADS |
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| ___ mano (right hand): Mus. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an
animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal
fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral.
Hint 2 anagram
ADLROS
Hint 3 another clue
BACK ___!
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Sentences with DESTRA (5)
Impatient to rove in the equinoctial regions, I could not raise my eyes to the starry firmament without thinking of the Southern Cross, and recalling the sublime passage of Dante, which the most celebrated commentators have applied to that constellation:-- Io mi volsi a man' destra e posi mente All' altro polo, e vidi quattro stelle Non viste mai fuorch' alla prima gente.
The Alps are bald or bare, the soil is wrinkled, objects are sinister or the reverse (_sinistra, destra_),[24] and a mountain is gigantic ox dwarfish.
But here also a possible Dantean reminiscence (not suggested to me this time) comes in; for in the lines already quoted "dalla man _destra_" occurs.
Tre volte innanzi la man destra spinse Per pigliar de le chiome il largo invito; Tre volte il vento solamente strinse, E restò lasso senza fin schernito: Nè stanchezza però tardollo o vinse, Perchè tornasse il pensier suo fallito; Anzi quanto mendico più si sente, Tanto s'affretta, non che il corso allente.
Fedelta (Fidelity), for instance, is given, “Donna vestita di bianco, colla destra mane tiene una chiave, ed ha alii piedi un cane.” Well, there you are--but it all depends upon the artist whether the emblem represents each item in the crudest form, or becomes a really fine design, full of refinement and inner meaning.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1966).