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  • proper noun A diminutive of the male given name Fernando.

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Examples

  • As the last weekend before the play (this week, Weds to Sat!) it was nice to have a day off on Saturday to mooch around town with James; doing a spot of shopping, eating in Nando’s and generally taking it easy.

    …oral combat, or “Drinks might fly” « Sven’s guide to… 2005

  • (Except me and James, of course.) “They’re just a pair of idiots/dicks/insert-expletive-of-choice”, James surmises over lunch, tucking into chicken breasts in Nando’s, “they’ll never find love and they’ll both die alone.”

    …oral combat, or “Drinks might fly” « Sven’s guide to… 2005

  • The taller one she had known as Nando, but he now was called Ferran, which she thought was funny; the other had always been Oriol.

    The Empty Family Colm Tóibín 2011

  • The taller one she had known as Nando, but he now was called Ferran, which she thought was funny; the other had always been Oriol.

    The Empty Family Colm Tóibín 2011

  • Sordi plays a character called Nando Moriconi whose little bedroom is filled with the bric-a-brac of American popular culture: football pennants and Charles Atlas posters, cowboy comics and photos of Betty Grable.

    Delizia! John Dickie 2008

  • The 50-year-old da Piedade, known as Nando, will face the monumental task of overseeing the rebuilding of a nation whose main infrastructure has been destroyed by the war, which also claimed at least half a million lives and has displaced four million people.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2002

  • Matt and Lisa had been talking about this restauant called Nando's (in fact they couldn't say enough about it), so we thought this might be the perfect place to say goodbye to our friends and end our epic roadtrip.

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

  • Matt and Lisa had been talking about this restauant called Nando's (in fact they couldn't say enough about it), so we thought this might be the perfect place to say goodbye to our friends and end our epic roadtrip.

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

  • A guy called Nando was speaking to us during the journey and was very helpful once we arrived in Maputo.

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

  • He then worked for a group called Nando's in the Manchester area for two to three years before returning to Whitehaven.

    Whitehaven News headlines 2009

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