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Definition of "lazaroni" [laz•a•ro•ni]

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Use "lazaroni" in a sentence
  • "The consequence is that these sixty thousand people, fellow-creatures of ours, who are known as the lazaroni of Naples, whom we half pity and altogether despise, and look upon as lowest members of the"
  • "Italian lazaroni -- and a poorer material can scarcely well be conceived."
  • "Naples has itself to offer to the visitor, with its never-ending gayety and its many-sided life -- its brilliant cafés, its lively theatres, its gay pantomimes, its buffooneries, its macaroni, its lazaroni, and its innumerable festivities."
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