magnifico
noun
a Venetian nobleman.
magnificoes
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pluralof magnifico.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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
But if the peers have ceased to be magnificoes, may it not also happen that the Sovereign may cease to be a Doge?
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
