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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

One of the magnificoes under the new r�gime was a dancing-house keeper, and his principal claim to administrative ability lay in the ownership of a Phrygian cap.

From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) by O'Shea, John Augustus

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

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 Shakespeare, William