Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See remarks under bravo, interj.
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Examples
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May 4th, 2010 at 2: 37 am descubri un nuevo grupo …. bravi emini4
Federico Aubele – La Esquina « Esl Videos « Videos « Literacy News 2010
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Bravi, bravi, bravissimi (to keep the musical references rolling) ….
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Alessandro Della Corte 5 months ago art is everywhere soooo goood grazie grazie grazie bravi bravi bravi
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Permalink i traktor son proprio bravi, li conobbi con il video delle scimmiette che realizzarono per i basement jaxx…
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Gli autori sono Thierry Poiraud e Didier Poiraud, meglio noti come indovinato, bravi!
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While the nobles and their followers, that crowd of _bravi_ that the statutes against maintenance had vainly tried to suppress, strewed the fields of
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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Hinds were they in very truth; the scum of the bravi that haunted the meanest borgo of Urbino.
Love-at-Arms Rafael Sabatini 1912
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"Take this knave and lock him in his chamber," he bade a couple of his bravi.
The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro Rafael Sabatini 1912
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And so he had resolved and disposed that I should be removed, and to accomplish this he had left a line of bravi along the road I was to pass.
Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys... Rafael Sabatini 1912
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Gian Maria turned from him, at last, to his bravi, who now entered silently and with the air of men who knew the work expected of them.
Love-at-Arms Rafael Sabatini 1912
stuartmathergibson commented on the word bravi
BRAVI (sing. bravo; sometimes translated as 'bravoes') were a species of coarse soldiery or hired assassins employed by the rural lordlings (or dons) of northern Italy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to protect their interests.
June 11, 2022