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
Other Word Forms
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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
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
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
And each time this magnifico will come out and make music.
From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Ben Hecht
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
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 Henry Curling
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
Suffer me, magnificoes, to conduct you, at least, partly on your way.
From The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville
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