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- proper noun A name by which Benito Mussolini was known.
Etymologies
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Examples
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In fact, the moniker Il Duce first came from such praise by a leading socialist Olindo Vernocchi who called him the “Duce of all revolutionary socialists in Italy” at a Socialist congress in 1912.
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Garibaldi was always or almost always victorious (in reality he fought brilliant guerrilla skirmishes which piety later turned into vast and tidy battles); he was the first to be called Il Duce, a pompous nineteenth-century opera libretto title, by antonomasia (Mussolini had been called Il Duce by his socialist followers before 1914 and took the title with him to the Fascist party).
The Not So Great Dictator Barzini, Luigi 1974
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James Emery of the National Association of Manufacturers praised Il Duce at a NAM convention for “leading through the streets of a reunited country a great body of citizens” who rescued Italy from “the blighting hand of radical socialism.”
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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“We are not afraid to have an impartial observer,” Il Duce insisted.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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Il Duce finally glanced up as Donovan neared the desk.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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Mr. Cragg's work appears to be totally abstract, but then you are suddenly reminded of Italian post-Futurist sculpture—for example, of Renato Bertelli's "Continuous Profile of Mussolini" 1933, in which Il Duce's profile is rotated 360 degrees, so that it seems to be a machine-part, rather than a portrait head.
An Explosion of Visual Arts Paul Levy 2011
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Il Duce finally glanced up as Donovan neared the desk.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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He noticed that photos in a German newspaper of Hitler with Mussolini after the attack showed the führer offering his left hand to Il Duce to shake.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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“We are not afraid to have an impartial observer,” Il Duce insisted.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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He noticed that photos in a German newspaper of Hitler with Mussolini after the attack showed the führer offering his left hand to Il Duce to shake.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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