The It. pl. cicale is sometimes used. [a. It. and Prov. cicala:—L. cicāda (see prec.). Cf. CIGALA.] = CICADA.
1821. Byron, Juan, III. cvi. The shrill cicalas, people of the pine.
1832. Tennyson, Mariana in S., viii. One dry cicala’s summersong At night filled all the gallery.
1856. Mrs. Browning, Aur. Leigh, VIII. 701. Perfectly be stunned By those insufferable cicale.
1884. Pall Mall Gaz., 13 Aug., 4/2. The chirp of green lizards … or the brr-r of the cicala.
