magnifico
Americannoun
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magnificoes
plural
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a Venetian nobleman.
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any person of high rank, major importance, etc.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of magnifico
1565–75; noun use of Italian magnifico (adj.) < Latin magnificus. See magnific
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He fed a story to the Independent, revealing that McDaniel was not the only magnifico with an interest in Dulwich.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 26, 2018
Every single thing Ranieri has done all season has been magnifico.
From The Guardian ● May 15, 2016
Most forcible expression came from the onetime First Lord of the Admiralty, Leopold S. Amery, in a London speech: Jay Cooke I was a 19th-Century magnifico, and looked it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Triple-chinned Diego Rivera's habitual garrulity was reduced to a murmured "magnifico, magnifico" as he passed from picture to picture.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Caterina was still a child when a king appeared as suitor, and the question of the Bernardini was never made; and Marco Cornaro—Marco is a delighted magnifico.
From The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus by Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull
In recent years, the plain people have insisted on doing their own political thinking and casting their own votes, uncoerced and unintimidated by Governors and other political magnificoes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Such magnificoes were very proud, Howarth relates, and they fought a great number of duels among themselves over matters of military precedence.
From Time Magazine Archive
He might get rid of the Whig magnificoes, but he could not rid himself of the Venetian constitution.
From Coningsby by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
Twenty merchants, The duke himself, and the magnificoes Of greatest port, have all persuaded with him; But none can drive him from the envious plea Of forfeiture, of justice, and his bond.
From The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
They were great magnificoes, very lordly gentlemen, those Persian nobles; hijosdalgo, as they say in Spain; men of large lives, splendor and leisure, scorning trade; mighty huntsmen before the Lord.
From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Kenneth Morris
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