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Eleven miles west, crossing the Piave again but this time onto flatter lands, grown in the anciently rural Tezze di Piave, Cecchetto’s Raboso wines match Prosecco’s acidic presence as instead vertical reds complex with pine, wild berries, and spicy notes.
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Susan H. Gordon, Phd, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
It was used anciently as a preservative, a seasoning, and medicinally for its antibacterial properties.
—Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2024
In several of the poesie paintings, Titian cast the faces of his protagonists in shadow, obscuring our sense of their inner lives, making them at once more anciently remote and more humanly familiar.
—Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2021
Susan H. Gordon, Phd, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
It was used anciently as a preservative, a seasoning, and medicinally for its antibacterial properties.
—Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2024
In several of the poesie paintings, Titian cast the faces of his protagonists in shadow, obscuring our sense of their inner lives, making them at once more anciently remote and more humanly familiar.
—Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2021
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“Anciently.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anciently. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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