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A native of Milan—i.e. mi-lano. (Old Italian for middle-land, meaning in the middle of the Lombardian plain.)
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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.