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magnifico

[mag-nif-i-koh] / mægˈnɪf ɪˌkoʊ /




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He fed a story to the Independent, revealing that McDaniel was not the only magnifico with an interest in Dulwich.

From The Guardian Oct. 26, 2018

Every single thing Ranieri has done all season has been magnifico.

From The Guardian May 15, 2016

This myth dies hard: started by the ruthless city-boss Lorenzo Il magnifico himself, prolonged by his sons, nourished by poets, flacks and hero-seeking historians from Poliziano to Jakob Burckhardt, it seems ineradicable, like kudzu.

From Time Magazine Archive

Most forcible expression came from the onetime First Lord of the Admiralty, Leopold S. Amery, in a London speech: Jay Cooke I was a 19th-Century magnifico, and looked it.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Caterina was still a child when a king appeared as suitor, and the question of the Bernardini was never made; and Marco Cornaro—Marco is a delighted magnifico.

From The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus by Turnbull, Lawrence, Mrs.

In recent years, the plain people have insisted on doing their own political thinking and casting their own votes, uncoerced and unintimidated by Governors and other political magnificoes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Such magnificoes were very proud, Howarth relates, and they fought a great number of duels among themselves over matters of military precedence.

From Time Magazine Archive

They were great magnificoes, very lordly gentlemen, those Persian nobles; hijosdalgo, as they say in Spain; men of large lives, splendor and leisure, scorning trade; mighty huntsmen before the Lord.

From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Morris, Kenneth

Suffer me, magnificoes, to conduct you, at least, partly on your way.

From The Piazza Tales by Melville, Herman

He might get rid of the Whig magnificoes, but he could not rid himself of the Venetian constitution.

From Coningsby by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield




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