gondoliere

See also: gondolière and Gondoliere

English

Etymology

Directly from Italian gondoliere.

Noun

gondoliere (plural gondolieres)

1. Alternative form of gondolier.
   • 1826 [1824 May], “The Astrologer’s Prediction; or, The Maniac’s Fate!”, in Legends of Terror! and Tales of the Wonderful and Wild. Original and Select, in Prose and Verse., London: […] T. Richardson, […] Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, […]; and Hunter, Edinburgh, page 41, column 1:

     A thousand lamps, from the illuminated squares of the city, reflected their burnished hues along the wave, and the mellow chaunt of the gondolieres kept time to the gentle plashing of their oars.

     Changed from gondoliers.

   • 1956, Cue, page 52:

     Try the risi-bisi, a thick soup and traditional in Venice as the gondolieres.

   • 2007, Antonia Riley, chapter 2, in The Sweetness of Bitter Water, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 33:

     The scene was oddly reminiscent of a bunch of Venetian gondolieres gone berserk with their oars, but the effort paid off.

Italian

Etymology

From gondola +‎ -iere.

Noun

gondoliere m (plural gondolieri, feminine gondoliera)

1. gondolier (Venetian boatman)

Anagrams

• deregolino