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  • noun Plural form of magnifico.

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Examples

  • This action, for a moment, revived the old controversy, and its opponents made much of the fact that there was no bathtub at Mount Vernon, or at Monticello, and that all the Presidents and other magnificoes of the past had got along without any such monarchical luxuries.

    Is H.L. Mencken Alive and Well at the NYT? « Isegoria 2008

  • This action, for a moment, revived the old controversy, and its opponents made much of the fact that there was no bathtub at Mount Vernon, or at Monticello, and that all the Presidents and other magnificoes of the past had got along without any such monarchical luxuries.

    August « 2008 « Isegoria 2008

  • Theserf-owning magnificoes of the capital would doubtless embrace a policy of romantic opposition to reform.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • Thiers fled with the rest of the magnificoes of the Third Republic to Versailles.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • Theserf-owning magnificoes of the capital would doubtless embrace a policy of romantic opposition to reform.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • Thiers fled with the rest of the magnificoes of the Third Republic to Versailles.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • Theserf-owning magnificoes of the capital would doubtless embrace a policy of romantic opposition to reform.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • Thiers fled with the rest of the magnificoes of the Third Republic to Versailles.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • To conclude in [3848] Hierom's words, I will ask our magnificoes that build with marble, and bestow a whole manor on a thread, what difference between them and Paul the Eremite, that bare old man?

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Theserf-owning magnificoes of the capital would doubtless embrace a policy of romantic opposition to reform.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

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