Definition of "bargello" [bargello]

• A needlepoint stitch that produces zigzag lines. (noun)

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• "The 'bargello' is a cordially-detested person all over Italy, if you except Modena, where the weak nobility make much of the 'bargello', and do justice to his excellent table."
• ""Worse, he's the 'bargello', and you must see that a stranger cannot be received into good society here if he goes to such places as that.""
• "So morning warms to broad noon, and hunger makes it dinner-time, and the young kinsmen who have strolled abroad come home, one of them with his hand bound up in a white rag that has drops of blood on it, for he has picked a quarrel in the street and steel has been out, as usual, though no one has been killed, because the 'bargello' and his men were in sight, down there near the Orsini's theatre-fortress."