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 Vaughan, Herbert M. (Herbert Millingchamp)
We wished to land for half an hour, but this being impossible, addio Pizzo!
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 by Various
Through the perfect silence she could hear the sound of the oars of a boat, itself unseen; and over the whispering waters came some faint and distant refrain, "Addio! addio!"
From Sunrise by Black, William
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 Hichens, Robert Smythe
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