bandito
Americannoun
plural
banditosEtymology
Origin of bandito
1585–95; < Italian; bandit (or as pseudo-Spanish alteration of bandit )
Example Sentences
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His son’s bedroom has the ceiling boards that the famed bandito Joaquin Murrieta, a family friend known as the Robin Hood of El Dorado, would lift to hide in the attic in the 1850s.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2018
Here you’ll be trying to eradicate the memory of the great Eli Wallach as the Mexican bandito Calvera.
From Washington Post • Oct. 22, 2015
His name, which he rarely acknowledges, is John Russell: Hombre, his sobriquet, is bestowed by another nameless character, the Jamaican actor Frank Silvera’s live-wire bandito.
From New York Times • Aug. 21, 2015
Diego Rivera's painted version of the hero looks like a daintily picturesque bandito by comparison.
From The Guardian • Jul. 6, 2013
Why make it easy for you to choose whether I am Zorro or el bandito when I am neitherf Your categories are too confining.
From "Bronx Masquerade" by Nikki Grimes
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