[a. F. cigale, It. & Pr. cigala:—L. cicāda.] = CICADA, CICALA.

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1623.  Favine, Theat. Hon., III. iv. 361. Like as the Athenians did weare Cigales on their shooes.

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1653.  Urquhart, Rabelais, II. xi. Grasshoppers, locusts, cigals, and such like fly-fowls.

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1768.  H. Walpole, Corr. (1837), II. 400. Constantly whining and droning and interrupting like a cigala in a sultry day in Italy.

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1824.  Heber, Jrnl. (1828), I. ix. 247.

        Still as we pass, from bush and briar,
The shrill cigala strikes his lyre.

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1878.  Besant & Rice, Celia’s Arbour, xxxii. 234. The shrill voice of the cigale.

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