Cremona

[ kri-moh-nuh; Italian kre-maw-nah ]

/ krɪˈmoʊ nə; Italian krɛˈmɔ nɑ /

a city in N Italy, on the Po River.

one of a class of violins of superior quality made there during the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries.

Example sentences from the Web for cremona

It is a genuine Cremona, made by the famous Antonius Stradivarius himself.

Quiet Talks on Service |S. D. Gordon
As Shakespeare among poets is the Cremona among instruments.

Zanoni |Edward Bulwer Lytton
He appears to have left Cremona for Mantua soon after the year 1698.

The Violin |George Hart
I have not observed any thing in a similar taste, either in Cremona or in its vicinity.

The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. IV (of 6) |Luigi Antonio Lanzi

A master at the School of Cremona, who worked in the great church there with Boccaccino (see 806).

A Popular Handbook to the National Gallery, Volume I, Foreign Schools |Various

Cremona

/ (Italian kreˈmoːna) /

a city in N Italy, in Lombardy on the River Po: noted for the manufacture of fine violins in the 16th–18th centuries. Pop: 70 887 (2001)