Adriatic

alternative archaic Adriatical · alternative archaic Adriatick

1. not comparableOf or pertaining to the Adriatic Sea.

   She moves me not, or not removes, at least, Affection's edge in me, were she as rough As are the swelling Adriatic seas:

   c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]

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   The railroad from Belgrade to Bar on the Adriatic coast negotiates 234 bridges and 254 tunnels in its tortuous 295-mile route.

   1990 August, Kenneth C. Danforth, “Yugoslavia: A House Much Divided”, in National Geographic, volume 178, number 2, page 112

alternative archaic Adriatical · alternative archaic Adriatick

1. A sea between Italy and the Balkan Peninsula; an extension of the Mediterranean located between the boot of Italy and the Dalmatian coast of the Balkans; in full, Adriatic Sea.

   A strange story comes from the Adriatic.

   1909, Bram Stoker, The Lady of the Shroud

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   Her husband sail'd upon the Adriatic, And made some voyages, too, in other seas,

   1818, Lord Byron, Beppo

   From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

   1946 March 5, Winston Churchill, Iron Curtain speech