gondoliere

plural gondolieres

1. alternativeAlternative form of gondolier.

   Try the risi-bisi, a thick soup and traditional in Venice as the gondolieres.

   1956, Cue, page 52

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   A thousand lamps, from the illuminated squares of the city, reflected their burnished hues along the wave, and the mellow chaunt of the gondolieres kept time to the gentle plashing of their oars.

   1826 [1824 May], “The Astrologer’s Prediction; or, The Maniac’s Fate!”, in Legends of Terror! and Tales of the Wonderful and Wild. Original and Select, in Prose and Verse., London: […] T. Richardson, […] Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, […]; and Hunter, Edinburgh, page 41, column 1

   The scene was oddly reminiscent of a bunch of Venetian gondolieres gone berserk with their oars, but the effort paid off.

   2007, Antonia Riley, chapter 2, in The Sweetness of Bitter Water, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 33