pacifico

American  

[pah-thee-fee-kaw, -see-] / pɑˈθi fiˌkɔ, -ˈsi- /

noun

Spanish.

pacificos plural

1. a peaceful person.

2. a native of Cuba or the Philippine Islands who did not resist the Spanish occupation.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• pacificos
  plural

Example Sentences

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pacifico pacificos

The success of his enterprise—his very life—hinged upon his caution, his powers of dissimulation, his ability to pass as a harmless, helpless pacifico.

From Rainbow's End by Beach, Rex Ellingwood

All graduates on admission were required to take a solemn oath that they would handle the books modo honesto et pacifico, nulli librorum per turpitudinem aut rasuras abolitionesque foliorum, præjudicium inferendo.

From The Customs of Old England by Snell, F. J. (Frederick John)

O'Reilly desired above all things to be alone at this moment, and so he was annoyed to discover that another person was before him— a woman, evidently some miserable pacifico like himself.

From Rainbow's End by Beach, Rex Ellingwood

What had happened to their friends and the laborers on their plantations was exactly what had happened and is happening to-day to other pacificos all over the island.

From Cuba in War Time by Davis, Richard Harding

They call themselves pacificos, but they carry information and aid our enemies.

From Rainbow's End by Beach, Rex Ellingwood

There were Spanish soldiers as well as pacificos among these, for the Spanish officers either know or care nothing about the health of their men.

From Cuba in War Time by Davis, Richard Harding

Indeed, it was upon the hapless pacificos that the horrors of war chiefly descended.

From The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 by Jackson, W. C.

Norine decided that they were not villagers, but ragged pacificos, upon the verge of exhaustion.

From Rainbow's End by Beach, Rex Ellingwood