Word: poltrona
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...FAMILY Matteo is managing director of Charme and co-chairman of Poltrona Frau Group, which comprises Italian furniture giants Poltrona Frau, Cassina and Cappellini. Annual turnover is approximately $300 million...
...Starace, who has a zero sense of humor, passed to a condemnation of "passive words and phrases such as insediarsi" (to install oneself). According to Starace, to say that a Fascist has been installed in a new post "is to bring to mind a sedia [chair] or worse a poltrona [armchair]. Such words give the impression that an official's first act in his new post is to sit down. Inadmissable! Say instead that he has assumed or shouldered the burden of his new office...