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Capricious may refer to: Capricieuse, also spelled Capricious, a solitaire card game; Capricious (cheese), an aged goat's milk cheese; See also.
The rules of La Capricieue were first published in 1892 in England by Professor Hoffmann, [1] but did not appear in the US until 1939. [2] Morehead & Mott-Smith adapted the name to Capricious, but David Parlett and Alphonse Moyse retain the original French name.
A capriccio or caprice (sometimes plural: caprices, capri or, in Italian, capricci), is a piece of music, usually fairly free in form and of a lively character.The typical capriccio is one that is fast, intense, and often virtuosic in nature.
Los Caprichos lack an organized and coherent structure, but they have important thematic nuclei. The most prevalent themes are: the superstition around witches, which predominates after Capricho No. 43 and that serves to express ideas about evil in a tragicomic way; the life and behavior of friars; erotic satire relating to prostitution and the role of the matchmaker; and to a lesser extent ...
Capricious is an aged goat's milk cheese made by the Achadinha Cheese Company in Petaluma, California. It won "Best in Show" at the 2002 American Cheese Society ...
In medieval and ancient philosophy, the Wheel of Fortune or Rota Fortunae is a symbol of the capricious nature of Fate. The wheel belongs to the goddess Fortuna (Greek equivalent: Tyche) who spins it at random, changing the positions of those on the wheel: some suffer great misfortune, others gain windfalls.
Pizza capricciosa (Italian: [ˈpittsa kapritˈtʃoːza,-oːsa]; lit. ' capricious/whimsical pizza ') is a style of pizza in Italian cuisine prepared with mozzarella cheese, prosciutto, mushrooms (usually champignons), green and black olives, artichokes, and tomatoes.
La capricciosa corretta (The capricious woman reformed) is a comic opera (commedia per musica) in two acts composed by Vicente Martín y Soler.The libretto is by Lorenzo Da Ponte and has a plot which has a slight similarity to William Shakespeare's play The Taming of the Shrew, but is not based on it.