Webster's 1913 Dictionary
DECAMERON
De *cam "e *ron, n. Etym: [It. decamerone, fr. Gr. décaméron.]
Defn: A celebrated collection of tales, supposed to be related in ten days; -- written in the 14th century, by Boccaccio, an Italian.
New American Oxford Dictionary
Decameron
De cam er on |diˈkamərən, -ˌrän dəˈkæmərən | a work by Boccaccio, written between 1348 and 1358, containing a hundred tales supposedly told in ten days by a party of ten young people who had fled from the Black Death in Florence. The work was influential on later writers such as Chaucer and Shakespeare.
Oxford Dictionary
Decameron
Decameron |dɪˈkamərən | a work by Boccaccio, written between 1348 and 1358, containing a hundred tales supposedly told in ten days by a party of ten young people who had fled from the Black Death in Florence. The work was influential on later writers such as Chaucer and Shakespeare.
Duden Dictionary
Decamerone
De c a me ro ne Substantiv, maskulin oder Substantiv, Neutrum , der oder das |Decamer o ne |griechisch-italienisch Dekameron
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