Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A person curious in art; a virtuoso.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A virtuoso.

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Examples

  • Un movie curioso Sinbad, un epico fantasy, realizzato nel 1989, criminal Lou Ferrigno!

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  • Lo curioso es que llevan más de dos años con ese pataleo de aumento salarial y el Colegio Médico Dominicano ha hecho de todo en ese tiempo para que atiendan a su llamado.

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  • I blogger di Tablas Creek (vignaioli californiani alla prese con vitigni del Rodano), ripresi da Dr. Vino, scoprono una curioso effetto àncora, definibile pure con follow the [...]

    Pine nuts, the whale, the anchor, Vinexpo – sipped and spit | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009

  • Note 1: AMRT Miravalles, 21 de julio, 1757; RG, Vol. II, p. 168; Antonio de Ciudad Real, Tratado curioso y docto de las grandezas de la Nueva España, ed.

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  • Note 14: Antonio de Cuidad Real, Tratado curioso y docto de las grandezas de la Nueva España, 2 vols., eds.,

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  • Tratado curioso y docto de las grandezas de la Nueva Espana: Relacion breve y verdadera de algunas cosas de las muchas que sucedieron al padre fray Alonso Ponce en las provincias de la Nueva Espana, siendo comisario general de aquellas partes.

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  • The account of their travels bears the title Tratado curioso y docto de las grandezas de la Nueva Espana: Relacion breve y verdadera de algunas cosas de las muchas que sucedieron al padre fray Alonso Ponce en las provincias de la Nueva España, siendo comisario general de aquellas partes.

    Did you know? Mexico's first tourists 2008

  • The account of their travels bears the title Tratado curioso y docto de las grandezas de la Nueva Espana: Relacion breve y verdadera de algunas cosas de las muchas que sucedieron al padre fray Alonso Ponce en las provincias de la Nueva España, siendo comisario general de aquellas partes.

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  • Antonio de Ciudad Real happily notes the day, in Tratado curioso, when he realized that he was finally free from quartan fever (cuartanas), which had plagued him for more than three years. 64 Intermittent fevers like these were probably malarial, and these two cases could very well have originated in Spain, as their carriers had only recently arrived from the Peninsula.

    Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

  • Note 38: Ciudad Real, Antonio de, Tratado curioso y docto de las grandezas de la Nueva España, (México: Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, UNAM, 1993) Vol. II, p. 131. back

    Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

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  • It used to be that a 'curioso' was a person who took care, inquired, studied, was expert. They practiced curioso.... now obsolete in soooo many ways. Sigh.

    November 5, 2015