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Type Surname (from occupation)
Usage Italian

Meaning & History

from a dialect variant of ciminiera "chimney" hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who built chimneys or worked a furnace oven or kiln with a chimney or a nickname for a tall thin person.
Added 4/29/2023 by Paradiso36