DELLA-CRUSCAN
\dˈɛləkɹˈʌskən], \dˈɛləkɹˈʌskən], \d_ˈɛ_l_ə_k_ɹ_ˈʌ_s_k_ə_n]\
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del-la-krus'kan, adj. belonging to, or resembling, the old Florentine Accademia della Crusca (1582), esp. of a group of sentimental English poetasters resident in Florence about 1784--crushed by Gifford's Baviad in 1794.
By Thomas Davidson
