Usually means: Act of penitential submission, humiliation.
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  1. Canossa: Merriam-Webster
  2. Canossa: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. Canossa: Collins English Dictionary
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  8. Canossa (disambiguation), Canossa: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Canossa: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  10. Canossa: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. Canossa: Merriam-Webster

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  1. Canossa(place), Canossa (place), Canossa: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Canossa)

noun:  A comune and castle town in the Province of Reggio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, famed as the site where the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV did penance in 1077, standing three days bare-headed in the snow, in order to reverse his excommunication by Pope Gregory VII.
noun:  (figuratively) An act of humiliating repentance.

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