punchinello

Example Sentences

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Like a maddened punchinello, he flailed at the gathering crowds of refugees, screaming at them to back away from the bank.

From Time Magazine Archive

No sympathy, no best wishes rose to greet brown, broad-shouldered Champion Max Baer as that prime poseur, playboy and punchinello of the U. S. prize ring parted the ropes.

From Time Magazine Archive

The people who had crowded in to look at him began to laugh when they saw how small he was, how pale and ugly like a punchinello.

From Under the Shadow of Etna Sicilian Stories from the Italian of Giovanni Verga by Verga, Giovanni

When he had finished he took out from the sack labelled "Rewards" a little trumpet, a punchinello, a drum, and a paper windmill, and handed them round.

From The City Curious by Bosschère, Jean de

She went to look for playthings—a punchinello, a collection of images, and spread them out on the bed in order to amuse him.

From Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man by Flaubert, Gustave