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Nothing more was heard of ministers, senators, generals, magistrates, princesses, duchesses, and citizens; for twenty leagues round, clowns, harlequins, punchinellos, gipsies, Columbines, and Follies alone were to be seen.

From Laboulaye's Fairy Book by Booth, Mary L. (Mary Louise)

So a great deception for the little boy, who figured to himself that gourds, speaking babies, articulate punchinellos, and elastic balloons grew quite naturally on those trees.

From Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen by Verne, Jules

Another boy told of the fir tree waiting for him, on the branches of which hung oranges, sugar-plums, and punchinellos.

From Good Stories for Holidays by Olcott, Frances Jenkins