addio
Americaninterjection
Example Sentences
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Indeed, the show ends with Minnie and Johnson singing "addio" to California as they clamber up a rocky plateau.
From Chicago Tribune ● Jan. 24, 2011
Addio, pummarole! addio, cucuzzielle!” whereupon an older woman, witnessing these useless tears, upbraided her with the words: “Do not complain, child, lest worse befall you!”
From The Naples Riviera by Herbert M. (Herbert Millingchamp) Vaughan
"Now I'll say addio," said she, "for to-morrow we return to Vizzini."
From Under the Shadow of Etna Sicilian Stories from the Italian of Giovanni Verga by Giovanni Verga
As she went up-stairs she said to herself that her guest's addio had been the final fiasco of an unfortunate morning.
From A Spirit in Prison by Robert Smythe Hichens
She was just as likely to sing O terra addio when she was happy as O sole mio when she was sad.
From The Place of Honeymoons by Arthur Ignatius Keller
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