magnifico
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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
Triple-chinned Diego Rivera's habitual garrulity was reduced to a murmured "magnifico, magnifico" as he passed from picture to picture.
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
"Omne ignotum pro magnifico," what is not well understood is always exaggerated, was Cicero's summing up of the tendency of the human mind to make the significance of misunderstood things greater than they really are.
From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
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
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
Those magnificoes had come to pay the poet a morning visit, and they had stayed half a day and one entire night.
From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Curling, Henry
Suffer me, magnificoes, to conduct you, at least, partly on your way.
From The Piazza Tales by Melville, Herman
Twenty merchants, The duke himself, and the magnificoes Of greatest port, have all persuaded with him; But none can drive him from the envious plea Of forfeiture, of justice, and his bond.
From The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare, William
