grande
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹɑndeɪ/
ipa: /ˈɡɹændeɪ/
rhymes: -ɑndeɪ
rhymes: -ændeɪ
Forms: form: grandes
Etymology: From Spanish grande. Doublet of grand.
Senses: examples: text: 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!”
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 1912, Tiemen De Vries, Dutch History, Art and Literature for Americans: Lectures Given in the University of Chicago, Eerdmans-Sevensma Company, pages 85–86:
text: 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.
ref: 1936 November 17, The New York Times Theater Reviews, pages 15–16:
text: 339. Portrait of a Spanish Grande.
ref: 1943, National Academy of Design Exhibition Record, 1826-1860, page 73:
text: 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?
ref: 1952, German Review, page 19:
text: Already you’re dressed like a Spanish grande, b’ God!
ref: 1966, Paul Bailey, The Claws of the Hawk: The Incredible Life of Wahker the Ute, Westernlore, →LCCN, page 90:
text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 1993, Sue Rich, Rawhide and Roses, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 229:
text: 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«.
ref: 1996, Mozart Studien, volume 6, page 277:
text: Those that you see on Calle Real are owned by a Spanish grande who has a large coconut plantation.
ref: 2000, P. C. Morantte, Brother to the Wind, New Day Publishers, →ISBN, page 45:
text: 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?
ref: 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:
text: D18. Portrait of a Spanish grande
ref: 2007, Koenraad Jonckheere, Adriaen Thomasz. Key (c. 1545–c. 1589): Portrait of a Calvinist Painter, Brepols, →ISBN, page 152:
text: This son, James Fritz-James, was created a Spanish Grande and Duke of Liria by Philip V.
ref: 2007, Karina Urbach, editor, European Aristocracies and the Radical Right 1918–1939, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 63:
text: 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.
ref: 2014, Peter de Vos, Confusion (Nothing Is What It Seems; 1), Kibworth Beauchamp, Leics: Matador, →ISBN, page 5:
glosses: Alternative form of grandee.