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signor

[seen-yawr, -yohr, sin-yawr, -yohr, see-nyawr] / ˈsin jɔr, -joʊr, sɪnˈjɔr, -ˈjoʊr, siˈnjɔr /
NOUN
mister
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Jobs with Justice, is a signor of the IRS complaint.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 15, 2015

Strange to think that those two movie brats – mister shark attack and signor blood-and-pasta – have now turned into Hollywood's leading purveyors of quality historical drama.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 8, 2013

All 109 of them. peaboss, tobe82, notmuch, edinamikie, LarsHEriksen, donandgeorge, stevenjwillis, signor, Vesuvial, adamgilbey, asbb.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 11, 2011

What care I for your chalks and ochres, signor painter?

From The Finger of Fate A Romance by Mayne Reid

We persuaded the doctor to allow us to take him for a drive, the signor at the same time expressing a wish to be driven to the Star and Garter, at Richmond, to dine.

From The Mapleson Memoirs, vol I 1848-1888 by James H. Mapleson

Giuseppe Prezzolini noted, “The fact that they had to lead such difficult lives, made of the signori keen observers of men.”

From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2011

A fine, big, bass voice answered him— Buona sera Miei signori, Buona sera, Buona sera.

From The Patriot Piccolo Mondo Antico by Antonio Fogazzaro

"Pardon, signori," said I, stepping lightly over the gunwale, "I have had a sharp run for it;" and away we went!

From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Charles James Lever

That is his message, signori, to one in this house.

From Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 by Francis J. (Francis Joseph) Reynolds

"What's the trouble, signori?" asked Ludlow, in the same easy tone, of those who were nearest.

From Among the Brigands by James De Mille

"Amen!—and now, then, what is your force? for these eighty or a hundred signors of the Aventine,—worthy men, doubtless,—scarce suffice for a revolt!"

From Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton

He has disappeared like magic, signors, and is nowhere to be found.

From The Phantom Ship by Frederick Marryat

It is a privilege your grey-haired signors solely can enjoy; but young men now-a-days may make some claims to it.

From The Young Duke by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield

He has disappeared like magic, signors, and is no where to be found.

From The Phantom Ship by Frederick Marryat

Who are the Priori in these months, eating soberly—regulated official dinners in the Palazzo Vecchio, with removes of tripe and boiled partridges, seasoned by practical jokes against the ill-fated butt among those potent signors?

From Romola by George Eliot


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