Sublime

sterling, which meant “of assured value.”

The word gnocco is Venetian dialect for a tree-knot or lump,

That word ‘tribe’: it’s shifted a lot in the past decade, shedding its dubious, imperialistic connotations and striding confidently into the anthropological world, in which groups are determined less by genes and more by the work they do, the clothes they wear, or the passions they pursue.