isolani

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noun

A queen's pawn with no pawns of the same colour on the adjacent files.

OriginItalian isolano →
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Meanings

nounisolani (plural isolanis)

plural isolanis

  1. board gamesA queen's pawn with no pawns of the same colour on the adjacent files.

Origin

  1. Italianisolano“islander”
  2. Englishisolani

Coined by Aron Nimzowitsch, from Italian isolano (“islander”).

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