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Date "Beppo" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1818. (references) |
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| Literature | Beppo The contraction of Giuseppe, and therefore equal to our Joe. Husband of Laura, a Venetian lady. He was taken captive in Troy, turned Turk, joined a band of pirates, grew rich, and, after several years' absence, returned to his native land, where he discovered his wife at a carnival ball with her cavaliero servente. He made himself known to her, and they lived together again as man and wife. (Byron: Beppo.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
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| Buca di Beppo | Buca di Beppo is a United States restaurant chain specializing in immigrant Southern Italian food. Beppo is slang for Joe in Southern Italy and Buca means basement in Italian, so the name roughly translates to Joe's Basement. Buca is well known for their vintage pictures that are hung almost right next to each other throughout the entire restauruant. It is said that they have around 1,800 pictures. (references) | ||
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Extended Definition: BEPPOBeppoPeople and things commonly known as Beppo include:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "Beppo". Image Credit. |
Topics by Level of Interest: BEPPO | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Beppo | 23 | Beppo | 23 | |
| Beppo Levi | 9 | Beppo (comics) | 8 | |
| Buca di Beppo | 8 | Beppo (poem) | 4 | |
| Beppo (comics) | 8 | Beppo Levi | 9 | |
| Beppo (poem) | 4 | Buca di Beppo | 8 | |
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Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
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