rapido
Americannoun
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of rapido
1955–60; < Italian rapido, Spanish rápido (noun use of adj.). See rapid
Example Sentences
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“Mas rapido pot favor ,” he wrote, making an apparent typo.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 6, 2019
No tan rapido, says the Washington Post, in an article laying out the dos and do-not-dos for eager tourists and cigar aficionados.
From US News ● Dec. 18, 2014
With what appeared to be almost gleeful haste, the opera company signed his replacement, precipitating his departure rapido: Italian Claudio Abbado, 50, who finished as music director at Milan's La Scala opera house last month.
From Time Magazine Archive
I Better, I should say, take the rapido which leaves Madrid three times a week at nine-thirty in the morning, than the night express which leaves as often at the same hour in the evening.
From Familiar Spanish Travels by Howells, William Dean
Things happened rapido enough to glut even an old buccaneer.
From Blackbeard: Buccaneer by Schoonover, Frank Earle
Ovid speaks of Hercules carrying the Parasol of Omphale:— "Aurea pellebant rapidos umbracula soles, Quæ tamen Herculeæ sustinuere manus."
From Umbrellas and Their History by Sangster, William
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