Meanings
- A small coastal village in Mallorca, Balearic Islands.
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By 1929, when the British writer Robert Graves and the American poet Laura Riding arrived in the nearby village of Deià — at the recommendation of the American writer Gertrude Stein — and later built a home there, that picturesque hamlet of stone houses and olive groves was already a fledgling artists’ colony.
2023 August 25, Gisela Williams, Richard Pedaline, “A Local’s Guide to Majorca”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
Origin
- CatalanDeià
- EnglishDeià
Borrowed from Catalan Deià.
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