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Sacramento (mock-Italian oath)
sacramento
also: сакрраменто
A stray scrap of pseudo-Italian ('I swear!') that Ivan Nikitich tosses into his toast for grandiloquent effect, the kind of half-learned flourish that marks him as a small-town literary poseur.
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- The Correspondent §42 sacramento
A stray scrap of pseudo-Italian ('I swear!') that Ivan Nikitich tosses into his toast for grandiloquent effect, exactly the kind of half-learned flourish that marks him as a small-town literary poseur.
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