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Vil⋅la⋅no⋅van

[vil-uh-noh-vuhn]
–adjective
1. Also, Vil⋅la⋅no⋅va. of or pertaining to the early Iron Age culture of northern Italy, characterized by lake dwellings.
–noun
2. a member of this people.

Origin:
after Villanova, a town in NE Italy; see -an
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Villanova 
It. culture of the early Iron Age, 1901, named for a hamlet near Bologna where archaeological remains of it were found.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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