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  • proper noun A Maltese surname derived from A Safardi, which means "a Jew coming from Spain".

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Examples

  • Although a secular nation today, religion is still important for the small, tightly knit Maltese community, explains tour guide Darrell Azzopardi.

    Malta's Sun-Kissed 'Silent City' Javier Espinoza 2010

  • Joe McEnness/BFA Frank Azzopardi and Nicole Azzopardi Though the actual rented house was seemingly off-limits to snooping, after dinner, much of the crowd lingered on the porch to overindulge on Godiva chocolates and then once again overindulge in an Amstel Light-branded photo booth.

    Gilt's Summer Home in the Hamptons Marshall Heyman 2011

  • While writing about lace as a key to recent Maltese social history, Azzopardi has actively promoted the tradition's survival by teaching its techniques, combining, like Annemor Sundbø, ingenious research with perpetuation of a manual skill having plausible claims to the status of art.

    Women Artists Win! Rowland, Ingrid D. 2008

  • Trezza Azzopardi: Out of Hiding (February 1, 2001)

    On Fiction 2005

  • Trezza Azzopardi: Out of Hiding (February 1, 2001)

    On Fiction 2005

  • I enjoy many science-fiction flavored space operas, and Buck-Rogerish fantasies, but I can only think of four films that are sufficiently true to their premise to be honored with the name "science fiction films": DARK CITY by Alex Proyas, THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL by Robert Wise; TIMESHIFTERS by Mario Azzopardi.

    INTERVIEW: John C. Wright 2004

  • Tim Bittlestone, of law firm Leslie Franks, told the newspaper, Myself and Azzopardi attended Kentish Town police station.

    FOXNews.com 2011

  • Azzopardi claims Winehouse approached him outside a pub in Camden, north London, on July 22 at around 11:30pm local time and asked him to help her buy drugs.

    FOXNews.com 2011

  • Tony Azzopardi, 56, said that he wants to help the police work out what happened to the singer in her last hours but claims he is terrified of reprisals from the dealer he arranged for her to buy drugs from.

    FOXNews.com 2011

  • Winehouse paid the dealer $2,000 for half an ounce of crack and the same amount of heroin, Azzopardi claims, before she headed home in the early hours of the next day.

    FOXNews.com 2011

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