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granita

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gra·ni·ta  (gr-nt)
n.
A granular dessert ice with a sugar-syrup base, usually flavored with fruit purée, coffee, or wine.
[Italian, from feminine past participle of granire, to make grainy, granulate; see granite.]


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Between the promenaders and the side-walks are seated hundreds and hundreds of people at small tables, smoking and taking granita, (a first cousin to ice-cream;) on the side-walks are more employing themselves in the same way.
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