popolo
AmericanUsage
When referring to Black people, popolo may be used neutrally or as a term of self-identification, but it can also be considered offensive, especially in disparaging contexts.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of popolo
From Hawaiian pōpolo
Example Sentences
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Only the popolo, the merry, brown-faced, easy-going Florentines, were still in the sun-baked city.
From The Count's Chauffeur by William Le Queux
Such were the reflections I made on walking about the Arena of this colossal edifice so worthy of the popolo Re.
From After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 by Major W. E Frye
The popolo minuto and artizans, upon whom he had mainly relied and whose interests he had sustained, deserted him; and the government remained henceforth in the hands of the wealthy burghers, the popolo grosso.
From The Story of Florence by Edmund G. Gardner
The greens were the leaves and the tender shoots of the popolo, aheahea, pakai, laulele and potato vines, cooked by rolling hot stones around and among them in a covered gourd.
From Hawaiian Folk Tales A Collection of Native Legends by Thomas G. (Thomas George) Thrum
The "popolari" or "popolani" are members of the "popolo" or people, sometimes opposed to the "Nobili," or old Nobility of birth, and sometimes to the "Grandi," or Magnates, the new nobility of wealth and status.
From Villani's Chronicle Being Selections from the First Nine Books of the Croniche Fiorentine of Giovanni Villani by Giovanni Villani
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