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Mount Vesuvius   /maʊnt vəsˈuviəs/   Listen
Mount Vesuvius

noun
1.
A volcano in southwestern Italy on the Mediterranean coast; a Plinian eruption in 79 AD buried Pompeii and killed Pliny the Elder; last erupted in 1944.  Synonyms: Mt. Vesuvius, Vesuvius.





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"Mount Vesuvius" Quotes from Famous Books



... FRIEND: You are now, I suppose, at Naples, in a new scene of 'Virtu', examining all the curiosities of Herculaneum, watching the eruptions of Mount Vesuvius, and surveying the magnificent churches and public buildings, by which ...
— The PG Edition of Chesterfield's Letters to His Son • The Earl of Chesterfield
... scenes the imperial pleasure party rode, until a high mountain appeared through an avenue cut in the forest, representing Mount Vesuvius during an eruption. Vast billows of flame were rolling to the skies, and the whole region was illumined with a blaze of light. The spectators had hardly recovered from the astonishment which this display caused, when the train suddenly entered a ...
— The Empire of Russia • John S. C. Abbott


Words linked to "Mount Vesuvius" :   volcano, Mt. Vesuvius, Italian Republic, Italia, Italy


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