terramare

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Borrowed from Italian terramare, plural of terramara, from a dialectal variant of terra marna (marl-earth) or terra mala (bad earth).

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terramare (countable and uncountable, plural terramares)

  1. (prehistory) Bronze Age lake dwellings and settlements of the Po valley in northern Italy, characterized by the presence of ammoniacal earthy deposit (black marl) in mounds.

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terramare f

  1. plural of terramara