Americano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Americanos
Senses: examples: text: Formerly used only in Italy and Seattle, it includes such tongue activators as latte, lungo, cappuccino, ristretto, macchiato, mochaccino and Americano.
ref: 1995 July 19, Suzanne Hamlin, “Coffee Drinks That Are Cool and Creamy”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Dec 2022:
text: Obviously, it will take a while to develop a circle of mates as good as the ones in Friends, especially as you’re going through a big change in your life, so be patient. And even if you find yourself sitting on your mum’s sofa eating Rich Tea biscuits for the third time this week instead of drinking Americano at Central Perk, don’t panic!
ref: 2005, Victoria Perrett, Survive Divorce: Your Route Through the Financial and Emotional Maze, The Infinite Ideas Company Limited, →ISBN, page 19:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of americano.
examples: text: I hear that your people love the Americanos, so much even that they always yield to them, and would almost kiss their boots, which is not dignified for a great nation. Do the Americanos love your people? Have they not still in their pockets the surplus of the millions of pesetas given to them when they complained of the ship Alabama?
ref: 1897 January 23, Punch, page 40:
text: “Soyez le bien venu, Monsieur Jean Boule et Monsieur Bronco. Che cosa posso offrirvi?” and, as they seated themselves at a small round table near the bar, hastened to bring the wine favoured by these favoured customers—the so gentle English Signor, gentilhomme, (doubtless once a milord, a nobile), and the so gentle, foolish Americano, so slow and strong, who looked at her with eyes of love, kind eyes, with a good true love.
ref: 1916, P[ercival] C[hristopher] Wren, The Wages Of Virtue, published 1949, page 112:
text: [A] Frenchman, viewing the undraped statues which bedizen his native galleries of art, either enjoys them in a purely æsthetic fashion—which is seldom possible save when he is in liquor—or confesses frankly that he doesn't like them at all; whereas the visiting Americano is so powerfully shocked and fascinated by them that one finds him, the same evening, in places where no respectable man ought to go. All art, to this fellow, must have a certain bawdiness, or he cannot abide it.
ref: 1918, H[enry] L[ouis] Mencken, “The Tone Art”, in Damn! A Book of Calumny, New York, N.Y.: Philip Goodman, →OCLC, page 106:
text: “It is a great pleasure to hear a Spanish song sung with such feeling by an Americano.” “An’ how did you know I was an Americano,” I crack at him, in English.
ref: 1939, Peter Cheyney, Don’t Get Me Wrong, published 1943, page 11:
text: When the election started, the Americanos did try and raise a technical objection to the candidacy of the Latina in question, but this was quickly dismissed before it became an issue.
ref: 1991, Allan David Heskin, The Struggle for Community, Westview Press, →ISBN, page 54:
text: “[…] Our Chinese comrades are planning an all-out invasion of Taiwan.” “The Americanos will never permit that to happen,” objected Castro.
ref: 2003, William Penn, The Panama Conspiracy, iUniverse, →ISBN:
text: “What’s your name?” Todd asked in Spanish. He might need to know to convince the grandfather that he spoke the truth. There was always distrust among these people when an Americano spoke.
ref: 2008, Elmer Kelton, Many a River, New York, N.Y.: Forge, →ISBN, page 170:
qualifier: imitating non-native speakers or in their context
glosses: An American.
Derived terms: Americola
Canadiano
Russiano