Ferrara

Borrowed from Italian Ferrara.

Ferrara (plural Ferraras)

1. (now historical) An Andrea Ferrara sword; (generally) a broadsword.
   • 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:

     Perry […] returned upon his disarmed foe, and brandishing his Ferrara, threatened to make him shorter by the head, if he would not immediately crave quarter, and yield.

Ferrara

1. A province of Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
2. City, archbishopric and capital of Ferrara.
3. A surname from Italian.
   • 2024 October 23, Kim Elsesser, “Mankeeping: How Shrinking Male Social Networks May Burden Women”, in Forbes‎^[1]:

     As a result, men turn to the women in their lives to fulfill their emotional needs. Ferrara and her coauthor are not the first to suggest that women bear the burden of mankeeping (although they did coin the term).

• IPA^(key): /ferˈra.ra/

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• Rhymes: -ara
• Hyphenation: Fer‧rà‧ra

Ferrara f

1. Ferrara (a province of Italy)
2. Ferrara (a city in Italy)

Ferrara m or f by sense

1. a surname

• ferrarese