What does "sicilian" mean?

A native or inhabitant of Sicily, <.

Sicilian

A woman in movement clothed in what resembles a bikini is drawn on a Sicilian mosaic from 5th century Rome.

//sɪˈsɪlɪən// adj, name, noun

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Noun

1
A native or inhabitant of Sicily, <.
"The picture of devastated Palermo which he draws fills up the measure of the dastardly oppression which has now passed away; more disgraceful excesses than those committed by the Bavarese, as the Sicilians called the royal troops, were [...]"
2
a resident of Sicily wordnet
3
Any chess opening that starts 1 e4 c5.
"Palmgren was playing white and had opened the Sicilian quite correctly."

Adjective

1
Of, from or relating to Sicily, Italy. not-comparable
"Sorry, I’m Italian, and let’s say I see that Sicilian policemen arrest less people in Sicily. This could be for two reasons, one is that everybody else overarrests, or the Sicilian policemen underarrest. And can you tell those two things apart?"

Adjective

Proper Noun

"A woman in movement clothed in what resembles a bikini is drawn on a Sicilian mosaic from 5th century Rome."

From Latin Sicilia + -an. By surface analysis, Sicily + -an.

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