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magnificoes

  • plural
    of magnifico.
    magnifico
    noun
    a Venetian nobleman.

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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

"The Herr Count cannot suppose that those magnificoes would call in a poor country doctor, like myself."

From 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance by Ossip Schubin

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 John St. Loe Strachey

Suffer me, magnificoes, to conduct you, at least, partly on your way.

From The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville