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- Della Crusca




- 1796, from Italian Accademia della Crusca, literally "Academy of the Chaff," "the name of an Academy established at Florence in 1582, mainly with the object of sifting and purifying the Italian language; whence its name, and its emblem, a sieve" [OED].
- Della Robbia




- 1787, from name of a family of 15c. Florentine painters and sculptors; used of wares made by Luca Della Robbia (1400-1482), or those like them.
- Della Cruscan




- "Relating to or denoting a late 18th-century school of English poets with an artificial style modelled on that of purist Italian writers", Named after the Academy della Crusca in Florence (from Italian della Crusca 'of the bran', with reference to ‘sifting’ of the language).