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 Rex Ellingwood Beach

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 F. J. (Frederick John) Snell

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 Rex Ellingwood Beach

Fur as doin' goes, we're all pacificos here, Miss Margaritty, and you mustn't forget that.

From Rita by Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze) Barry

Then, too, the pacificos, according to all reports, were dying like flies in the prison camps.

From Rainbow's End by Rex Ellingwood Beach

These pacificos are now gathered inside of a dead line, drawn one hundred and fifty yards around the towns, or wherever there is a fort.

From Cuba in War Time by Richard Harding Davis

Then you are not at heart pacificos, Marm Prudence.

From Rita by Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze) Barry

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 Richard Harding Davis