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bambino en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /bæmˈbinoʊ/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian bambino.

Meanings

1. A child or baby, especially a representation in art of the infant Christ wrapped in swaddling clothes.
   • These [spiders] in my office were newborn babies. A hundred scuttering bambinos, each one no bigger than a poppyseed. Too small still for red hourglasses, too small even for red egg timers. 1988, David Quammen, The Flight of the Iguana:

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