Sixty-four is 'a sciammerìa, glossed in Italian as la marsina: a tailcoat, formal evening dress. It is the most expensive object on the board.
The word is a loan and it sounds like one, which is fitting for a garment nobody consulting a smorfia was likely to own. Neapolitan absorbed a great deal of French and Spanish vocabulary across four centuries of foreign rule, and the clothing terms are where it shows most.
- 64
- 'A sciammerìa
- the tailcoat
- Row 61–70 of the tabellone
Where the figure comes from
Unrecorded.
Other things filed on 64
In Neapolitan life
Sicily puts the octopus at 64, u purpu, which is the animal Naples argues about at 67. The two boards share a small stock of images and shuffle them.
64 in the smorfia — frequently asked
A tailcoat. Italian lists translate it marsina, the formal coat with tails.
No source says. It is the most expensive object on a board otherwise full of beans, cats and chamber pots, which is itself worth noticing.