Rising up out of the plains southwest of Padua, these conical hills or colli were a popular retreat for the nobles and bishops of Venice, who built elaborate villas and palazzi here.
Cocktails were promised, I am sure, but all I can see around the room are beakers, pipettes and conical flasks.
Perched on a conical hill above the palazzo is the old village of Castellabate, a warren of odd little houses, tiny squares, narrow alleys and steep steps, which is interesting to explore and contains several restaurants.
Another year we stayed in a trullo, a whitewashed, conical house among olive groves just outside Alberobello in Puglia.
As the name suggests, arancini are classically quite large, whether they're round or conical, though now they are more popular as antipasti, they are shrinking: Locatelli suggests making them the size of a tangerine, Carluccio an apricot, and Hartnett gives a diameter of 4-5cm.
Some may be younger, like Stella McCartney, the daughter of Paul McCartney; or wilder, like Jean Paul Gaultier, who dressed Madonna in a conical bra.
A study carried out by Samuel Panno of the Illinois State Geological Survey and his colleagues has revealed that nearby caves store the dates of past earthquakes in stone.Dr Panno and his team found their recording angel in the form of stalagmites, the conical projections that grow on the floors of limestone caves.
This conical beam is then reflected into a cluster of 1m or so rubidium atoms, which are held trapped in a magnetic field within a vacuum chamber.One effect of the beam is to polarise the cloud of electrons surrounding each rubidium nucleus, meaning that part of the atom becomes a negatively charged pole, and part a positively charged pole.
The spruce was an Eyak dictionary in itself, from lis, the neat, conical tree, to Ge.c, its wiry root, useful for baskets; from Gahdg, its blue-green, flattened needles, which could be brewed up for beer or tea, to sihx, its resin, from which came pitch to make canoes watertight.
As far as watching television is concerned, visual acuity represents the point beyond which some of the detail in the picture can no longer be resolved by the conical receptor cells in the retina of the eye.
Few women other than Madonna ever wore the conical metallic-looking bra designed by Jean-Paul Gaultier in 1990.
