stagliarsi
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Italian
[edit]Verb
[edit]stagliàrsi (first-person singular present mi stàglio, first-person singular past historic mi stagliài, past participle stagliàto)
- reflexive of stagliare
- to stand out
- 2013, F. Scott Fitzgerald, translated by Ferruccio Russo, Il Grande Gatsby [The Great Gatsby], Edizioni Scientifiche e Artistiche, page 132:
- Forse la sua presenza diede una nota particolare di oppressione alla serata: si staglia, nella mia memoria, rispetto alle altre feste di quell’estate.
- Perhaps his presence gave the evening its peculiar quality of oppressiveness: it stands out in my memory from Gatsby’s other parties that summer.
- (literally, “Maybe his presence gave a particular note of oppression to the evening: it stands out, in my memory, with respect to the other parties of that summer.”)