villatic (vilatik)

[L. villatic us, of or pertaining to a villa or farm, A ailant on the perched roosts And nests in order ranged Of tame villa tick fowl. Milton , S. A., 1. 1695. villeggiatura (vi-lej-a-töʻrä), n. [It., villeg giare , stay at a country-seat, villa , a countryseat: see villa .] The period spent at a countryseat; retirement in the country. Beginning with the warm days of early May, and continuing till the villeggiatura interrupts it late in September, all Venice goes by a single impulse of dolce far niente. Howells, Venetian Life, iv. Being just now in villeggiatura, I hear many wise remarks from my bucolic friends about the weather. Mortimer Collins , Thoughts in my Garden, I. 5.