Cagliostro

[ kal-yoh-stroh; Italian kah-lyaws-traw ]

noun

1. Count A·les·san·dro di [kount, ah-les-, sahn, -draw dee], Giuseppe Balsamo, 1743–95, Italian adventurer and impostor.

Cagliostro

/ kaʎˈʎostro /

noun

1. CagliostroAlessandro di, Count17431795MItalianTRAVEL AND EXPLORATION: adventurerTHEATRE: magician Count Alessandro di (alesˈsandro di), original name Giuseppe Balsamo. 1743–95, Italian adventurer and magician, who was imprisoned for life by the Inquisition for his association with freemasonry

Example Sentences

But Count Cagliostro's career of jugglery and fraud was nearly over.

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Cagliostro was ordered by the Inquisition to explain the meaning of this paper.

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Cagliostro looked with horror upon the ashes of the Bacchante.

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To her and Cagliostro three chapters are devoted; both are admirably sketched, and many illustrative anecdotes of them are told.

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There he remained until his death, August 20, 1695—just a century before Cagliostro came to the same end.

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