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Capri

40.5500°N 14.2333°E · Q173292

4 English words in this atlas trace back to Capri. It sits in Italy.

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caprinoun · 20th century
Well attested

The trousers are named for an Italian island.

Capri pants were designed for resort wear on the island in the late 1940s and named for it. English keeps the island as an adjective.

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Caprese saladnoun · 20th century
Well attested

Caprese simply means from Capri; the island named a dish the mainland now owns.

The name is the ordinary Italian adjective for Capri, and the dish is tied to the island's cafés in the early twentieth century. The claim that its three colors were chosen for the Italian flag is a later flourish that no early source supports.

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capri pantsnoun · 1948
Probable

Named for an Italian holiday island by a designer who was not Italian.

The German designer Sonja de Lennart is generally credited with the cut in 1948 and named it for the island she loved; Hollywood and Audrey Hepburn carried it worldwide in the following decade. The attribution rests largely on the designer's own account, so the story is likelier than it is documented.

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caprisnoun · 1950s
Well attested

The trousers are named for the island where their designer's family took holidays.

The German designer Sonja de Lennart introduced her Capri Collection in 1948 and named it after the island in the Bay of Naples. The trousers reached a wide audience through 1950s and 1960s film and television, on Audrey Hepburn and Mary Tyler Moore. English later built manpris on the same ending.

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