Accidente! (4 syl.)
An Italian curse or oath: “Ce qui veut dire en bon francais, ‘Puisses-tu mourir dʹaccident, sans confession,ʹ damné.”—E. About: Tolla.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.