Definition of "petto" []

• Only used in in petto (noun)

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• "I had long kept it in petto as my ultimate remedy."
• "Robert Southey your arguments are answered in petto [2] & you shall have them on paper soon. you cannot conceive how much I miss Combe in packing up. tomorrow morning I depart & when you get this you may fancy me half starvd about Tetbury ruminating upon the days to come & anticipating all the horrors of examination. suppose each College should associate like the Crown & Anchor [3] what will become of Basil?"
• "And, although I don't speak Italian, I do speak Spanish, and I've listened to enough Italian opera to have picked up a lot of vocab from it; I find myself hanging on every word of that, again, despite the idiocy of many libretti I'm sorry, but "Mille serpenti mi devoran il petto", anyone?"