etna

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For example, etna, often painted reliefs of white horses, were Shinto offerings that recall live horses dedicated to the god spirit Kami, who rode a sacred horse while blessing his worshipers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Without lighting up, she set the etna going, and stood looking at the moon-full for the second time since she and Cyril had waited for it in the Abbey.

From Saint's Progress by Galsworthy, John

She walks the world with a needle-case in one hand and an etna in the other.

From An African Millionaire Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay by Allen, Grant

They went down to tell the maids, and for some time after sat up together, talking over what they had seen, eating biscuits and drinking milk, which they warmed on an etna.

From Saint's Progress by Galsworthy, John

Things not to be forgotten were nails, hammer, rope, methylated spirit and etna.

From In the Tail of the Peacock by Savory, Isabel