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- 5. who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes
- 6. a person who gives financial or other support to a person, organization, or cause:
- 8. a large French country house or castle, often giving its name to wine made in its neighbourhood:
- 9. a city in west central Italy, the capital of Tuscany, on the River Arno; population 365,659 (2008). Florence was a leading centre of the Italian Renaissance from the 14th to the 16th century, especially under the rule of the Medici family during the 15th century.
- 10. a powerful Italian family of bankers and merchants whose members effectively ruled Florence for much of the 15th century and from 1569 were grand dukes of Tuscany.
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- 1. man:a person with many talents or areas of knowledge.
- 2. a painting done rapidly in watercolour on wet plaster on a wall or ceiling, so that the colours penetrate the plaster and become fixed as it dries.
- 3. a revival of or renewed interest in something:
- 4. a person perceived as prepared to use unethical means to gain an advantage.
- 7. a large oblong hall or building with double colonnades and a semicircular apse, used in ancient Rome as a court of law or for public assemblies.
