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Updated: May 27, 2025
In that way every one can hear you! Beast of a sheep-grazer!" "And you crow-feeder! Furnisher of grave-diggers. And then ignorant! Oh this time I have said it clearly!" "And it seems to me that it is enough!" roared the doctor, across the table. "Ciociaro! Take that!" "Ciociaro? I? Oh, your soul! If I get hold of you with my hands!"
A 'ciociaro' is a hill-man who wears 'cioce, or rags, bound upon his feet with leathern sandals and thongs. He is generally a shepherd, and is held in contempt by the more respectable people of the larger mountain towns. To call a man a 'ciociaro' is a bitter insult. Stefanone in his anger had half risen from his seat.
He believes that a man may be the son of a ciociaro a fellow who ties his legs up in rags and thongs, and lives on goats' milk in the mountains and that if he has brains enough, or talent enough, he may marry any woman he likes without ever thinking whether she is noble or not.
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