"pecchia" meaning in Italian

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          "english": "all about the forest resounded sweetly in the morning breeze, and the ingenious bee preyed upon blossom after blossom in the first light of dawn.",
          "ref": "1475, Angelo Poliziano, “Libro I”, in Stanze de messer Angelo Politiano cominciate per la giostra del magnifico Giuliano di Pietro de Medici, collected in Poesie Italiane by Saverio Orlando, Bologna: Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli, published 1988, section XXV, lines 5–8:",
          "text": "risonava la selva intorno intorno\nsoavemente all’ôra mattutina,\ne la ingegnosa pecchia al primo albore\ngiva predando ora uno or altro fiore.",
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          "english": "The diverse and mixed voices the crowd used to whisper produced a noise similar to the buzzing of bees",
          "ref": "c. 1804, Pietro Verri, “La vestale al campo scellerato”, in Le notti romane al sepolcro degli Scipioni [Roman Nights at the Scipiones' Sepulchre], Napoli: Gaetano Nobile, published 1836, Notte prima: Colloquio secondo, page 127:",
          "text": "Le diverse e miste voci, con le quali mormorava la moltitudine, producevano romore simile al ronzio delle pecchie",
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          "english": "it goes up along the stone jamb the white jasmin, grateful to the bees, equal in candor to the whitening hair.",
          "ref": "1903, Gabriele D'Annunzio, “L'opere e i giorni [Works and Days]”, in Alcyone, collected in D'Annunzio: versi d'amore e di gloria, volume 2, Milan, published 2004, lines 29–31:",
          "text": "sale su per lo stipite di pietra\nil bianco gelsomin grato alle pecchie\neguale di candore al crin canuto.",
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        "(literary or regional, zoology) bee"
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        "the vulva"
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        "(vulgar, slang) the vulva"
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      "ipa": "/ˈpek.kja/"
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          "english": "all about the forest resounded sweetly in the morning breeze, and the ingenious bee preyed upon blossom after blossom in the first light of dawn.",
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          "text": "risonava la selva intorno intorno\nsoavemente all’ôra mattutina,\ne la ingegnosa pecchia al primo albore\ngiva predando ora uno or altro fiore.",
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          "text": "Le diverse e miste voci, con le quali mormorava la moltitudine, producevano romore simile al ronzio delle pecchie",
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          "english": "it goes up along the stone jamb the white jasmin, grateful to the bees, equal in candor to the whitening hair.",
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          "text": "sale su per lo stipite di pietra\nil bianco gelsomin grato alle pecchie\neguale di candore al crin canuto.",
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