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
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It is, then, as the great church of the popolo that we have to consider Or San Michele.
From Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition by Edward Hutton
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 itself was divided into twenty armed companies, each under a gonfaloniere.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" by Various
Behind them, the great hall of the Palazzo Laterano, Roman residence of the pope, was packed with French seigneurs and knights and the popolo grosso of Rome.
From The Saracen: The Holy War by Robert Shea
Here, when Verona was a free city, the capitano del popolo was inaugurated; proclamations were read from it; criminals heard their sentences pronounced from it.
From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 by Various
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