magnifico
Americannoun
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a Venetian nobleman.
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any person of high rank, major importance, etc.
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of magnifico
1565–75; noun use of Italian magnifico (adj.) < Latin magnificus. See magnific
Example Sentences
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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
This myth dies hard: started by the ruthless city-boss Lorenzo Il magnifico himself, prolonged by his sons, nourished by poets, flacks and hero-seeking historians from Poliziano to Jakob Burckhardt, it seems ineradicable, like kudzu.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week William Fox, that bald and beady-eyed onetime magnifico of cinema, sprang at his adversaries in eleven directions at once.
From Time Magazine Archive
We always supposed this feline magnifico to have derived from some stock imported by the first Sir Henry when he was Master of the Household to George III.
From The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography by Strachey, John St. Loe
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
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
With such rural magnificoes, if they ever existed in that form, which I greatly doubt, we had nothing in common.
From The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography by Strachey, John St. Loe
Those magnificoes had come to pay the poet a morning visit, and they had stayed half a day and one entire night.
From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Curling, Henry
Suffer me, magnificoes, to conduct you, at least, partly on your way.
From The Piazza Tales by Melville, Herman
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