cuticagna
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cuticagna f (plural cuticagne)
- (archaic) nape, scruff (of the neck)
- 1472, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto XXXII, p. 478, vv. 97-98:
- Allor lo presi per la cuticagna ¶ e dissi: «El converrà che tu ti nomi, ¶ o che capel qui sù non ti rimagna».
- Then by the scalp behind I seized upon him and said: «It must needs be thou name thyself, or not a hair remain upon thee here».
- (by extension) head