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  • Miró
    Miró
    noun
    Gabriel 1879–1930, Spanish novelist, short-story writer, and essayist.
  • miro
    miro
    noun
    a tall New Zealand coniferous timber tree, Podocarpus ferrugineus , with large red fruit

Miró

American  
[mee-roh, mee-raw] / miˈroʊ, miˈrɔ /

noun

  1. Gabriel 1879–1930, Spanish novelist, short-story writer, and essayist.

  2. Joan 1893–1983, Spanish painter.


Miró 1 British  
/ miˈro /

noun

  1. Joan (xwan). 1893–1983, Spanish surrealist painter

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

miro 2 British  
/ ˈmiːrɒ /

noun

  1. a tall New Zealand coniferous timber tree, Podocarpus ferrugineus , with large red fruit

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of miro

Māori


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Organized in roughly reverse-chronological order by curator Katherine Brinson with support from Charlotte Youkilis and Bellara Huang, the solo show opens with a surprise courtesy of an unlikely source: Joan Miró.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

He was also a surrealist painter and exhibited his work around the world alongside artists such as Joan Miró.

From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026

Miró runs a sustainable Los Angeles clothing brand, Sami Miró Vintage, where she makes one-of-a-kind items with up-cycled materials.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2023

One particular brand of paint was likely most responsible for the degradation observed in the Miró pieces, the team concluded in a study published in July in the journal Heritage Science.

From New York Times ● Sep. 18, 2023

Unlike Dali or Miró, neither became a household name.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 12, 2022

“A veces, lo miro y digo, ‘Wow,’” she says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2025

Mande's wast, my hand; used improperly for miro.

From Romano Lavo-Lil: word book of the Romany; or, English Gypsy language by George Henry Borrow

Belgra sho mille pu cado Cosvarri; hin oter miro chabo.

From The Zincali: an account of the gypsies of Spain by George Henry Borrow

Tute haws te chores m’ri all,   Tutes dukkered būti Tu shan miro jivaben   Me t’vel paller tute.

From The Gypsies by Charles Godfrey Leland

De hadzin e Birengere miro lowe, dale mangawa me len de bidschin jon mire lowe gadder o foro Naile abbi Bidschebasger wurtum sikk. 

From The English Gipsies and Their Language by Charles Godfrey Leland

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