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In a language overflowing with diminutives, the name Rossetti, indicating an original tendency to red hair, a characteristic which ceased to distinguish the family, v.'as bestowed upon certain of its members. In compliance with a custom more common in Italy than in England, but not unknown here, what was originally applied as a nick-name became accepted as a patronymic.
