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

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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

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

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

He was probably as much afraid that Governor Taft would order out the military as the wretched pacificos were that he would not.

From The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. Blount

There you can visit the Americans imprisoned in Morro and Cabanas, and in the streets you can see the starving pacificos.

From Lion and the Unicorn by Richard Harding Davis

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

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

The revolutionists are thick even among the pacificos up here, but the Federals have the most ammunition, and the gods of war are with the guns.”

From The Treasure Trail A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine by Robert Wesley Amick

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