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Specialty Expressions: FAR NIENTE

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Dolce far NienteLiterature1: (Italian). Delightful idleness. Pliny has "Jucundum tamen nihil agere " (Ep. viii. 9).
2: (3 syl.). Italian phrase. The Latin otium. Dolce far niente is the sweet enjoyment of having nothing to do, i.e. of a holiday. (See Dolce.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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