Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
Borrowed from Italian grande. Doublet of grand and grandee.
Borrowed from Italian grande. Doublet of grand and grandee.
Kevin considered bumming a cig, but he doubted any of them would part with one. Clutching their Starbucks grandes, guarding their garment bags with practiced eyes—how much sympathy could they be expected to muster?1998, Doug Guinan, California Screaming, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 287:
“Harrumph,” Daddy said, flipping through the morning’s deliveries – the L.A. Times, the New York Times and two grandes from Starbucks: decaf Colombian for my stressed superior, and a nonfat capp with a double espresso shot for me.1999, Elizabeth Lenhard, Bettypalooza, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 80:
As she went to work the only concern prominent in her mind was a strong desire for a couple of grandes from Starbucks.1997, J. H. Marks, Conspiracy Theory, Signet, →ISBN, page 148:
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From Spanish grande. Doublet of grand.
Already you’re dressed like a Spanish grande, b’ God!1966, Paul Bailey, The Claws of the Hawk: The Incredible Life of Wahker the Ute, Westernlore, →LCCN, page 90:
339. Portrait of a Spanish Grande.1943, National Academy of Design Exhibition Record, 1826-1860, page 73:
The two plays were originally sketched with a French milieu, but after Voltaire’s revolutionary pamphlet Le Droit du seigneur (1762) it seemed safer to invent a Spanish grande and his castle Aguas Frescas—the more alluring to Beaumarchais as he knew the milieu well from his stay of eleven months in Spain.1972, Helmut Anthony Hatzfeld, The Rococo: Eroticism, Wit, and Elegance in European Literature (Pegasus Movements in Literature Series), Pegasus, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., →LCCN, page 108:
With the exception of the vital Otto Woegerer as Juan, a Spanish grande, equally quick to draw his rapier against Hamlet as to appear a mystically presaging friend, the rest of the large cast fills its space with satisfactory competence.1936 November 17, The New York Times Theater Reviews, pages 15–16:
The essence of the opera’s entire plot is revealed in just 28 measures: in this first musical number here, »a Spanish grande, fallen in love with a young girl, endeavours to seduce her«.1996, Mozart Studien, volume 6, page 277:
So the attempt to seduce Zerlina freezes not only in the cold and monumental architecture of a black marble environment and in the stiff “overstyled” costuming, but also in the unresolvable, impossible role-conflict of a Spanish Grande trying to reach for something like John Wayne’s sex appeal.1993, Eva Šormová, editor, Don Juan and Faust in the XXth Century: Theatre Conference, 27.9. - 1.10.1991, Prague, Charles University, →ISBN, page 274:
From where they were, Hayden thought, it resembled the type of house a Spanish Grande might live in, neat, clean, with gentle arches framing the front portico.1993, Sue Rich, Rawhide and Roses, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 229:
This son, James Fritz-James, was created a Spanish Grande and Duke of Liria by Philip V.2007, Karina Urbach, editor, European Aristocracies and the Radical Right 1918–1939, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 63:
D18. Portrait of a Spanish grande2007, Koenraad Jonckheere, Adriaen Thomasz. Key (c. 1545–c. 1589): Portrait of a Calvinist Painter, Brepols, →ISBN, page 152:
Else, how could it be that a little Miss Mischief dresses up as a homely little Dutch farm girl, an awkward and uncouth youth parades in the costume and with the air of a Spanish grande, the respectable, quiet housewife becomes a sailor’s sweetheart, a little boy flirt assumes the detached air of a high priest a painstaking bookkeeper masquerades as a hold-up man or a bank robber with a record as a policeman?1952, German Review, page 19:
Gone was the affable behaviour of a loose-living playboy, replaced by the tough manners of a hard-working Chinese with the airs of a Spanish Grande.2014, Peter de Vos, Confusion (Nothing Is What It Seems; 1), Kibworth Beauchamp, Leics: Matador, →ISBN, page 5:
Those that you see on Calle Real are owned by a Spanish grande who has a large coconut plantation.2000, P. C. Morantte, Brother to the Wind, New Day Publishers, →ISBN, page 45:
Console yourself with the practical philosophy of our countryman, Private Curtis, who was the picture of a Spanish Grande of the first class, and whom I once heard after a Lenten dinner extemporize with great good-humour this Leonine distich:—“Quod deficit in ferculis / Supplebitur in poculis!”1847, T[erence] M[cMahon] Hughes, “Hercules Rafferty.—An Asturianillo.—An Irish stew.—A Bottle-Hero.—Don Tito de Chiclana.—O’Gorman.—Perils of love-making in the Peninsula.” (chapter VI), in An Overland Journey to Lisbon at the Close of 1846; with a Picture of the Actual State of Spain and Portugal, volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], page 89:
Was it Uncle Richard’s fault that he looked like a Spanish Grande, that women rarely could resist his melancholy brown eyes smoldering with an indefinable something?2004, Irene Awret, “Part One: Berlin”, in They’ll Have to Catch Me First: An Artist’s Coming of Age in the Third Reich, Madison, Wis.: The University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 36:
When we read in almost every book in which the life of Philip is described that he was a man of haughty character with an aversion to every vulgarity; when we read of his ability in courting ladies, his manly beauty, his fine dress as a Spanish grande, we incline to think that before us stands a nobleman of kindred feelings, of carefully fostered nobility.1912, Tiemen De Vries, Dutch History, Art and Literature for Americans: Lectures Given in the University of Chicago, Eerdmans-Sevensma Company, pages 85–86:
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From French grande, feminine of grand.
That made eight deaths in a matter of a few days—all of them tied inexplicably to this “grande lady” herself—Meadowdale Prison.2013, Chet Belmonte, Meadowdale: A Saga of Confinement, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 223:
In Shannon O’Cork’s The Murder of Muriel Lake, which is about a Writers of Mystery Convention (aka MWA?), grande mistress Muriel Lake was murdered.1997, Alzina Stone Dale, Mystery Reader’s Walking Guide: New York, →ISBN, page 217:
Almost symbolically, Lopahin still plays the peasant and Lyubov the grande mistress.1972, Russell Sage College, Studies in the Twentieth Century, page 79:
THIS GRANDE LADY IS DIS-TIN-GUISH-A-BLE IN HER DEMURE DELIVERIES. DELIGHTFUL AND DAZZLING, THE LADY IS DEFINITELY A DIVA.2011, Richard Allen Brooks, “Dame Johnson”, in From Life to Death, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 28:
Annabella Kristina Ramona Toaltz was a grande name for a grande woman.2016, Jennie Gilbert Ross, The Wrong Side of the Blanket, Archway Publishing, →ISBN:
A supremely happy family waved goodbye to an elderly grande dame and a namesake who had just enrolled in her first lesson in becoming a grande lady.[…]In Litchfield, Connecticut, the Hutchinson brothers rushed to tell the grande old dame her daughter was making history.1993, Donald S. Metz, Madame President, New Saga Publishers, →ISBN, pages 147, 270:
Her silence now had the quality of the comfortable silences between friends, not the half-respectful, half-fearful types of a servant not spoken to by her grande mistress.2016, Victor Milán, The Dinosaur Knights, Tor Books, →ISBN, page 101:
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| more grande | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most grande | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |