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ARCUCCIO

Volume 2 · 50 words · 1797 Edition

Arcutio,** a machine made of a board, covered with pieces of hoops, like the tilt of a waggon; used in Italy to prevent children from being overlaid and smothered by nurses or others. Every nurse in Florence is obliged to lay her child in an arcuto, under pain of excommunication.