punchinello
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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
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
Harlequin, punchinello, pantaloon, &c., have the same character in every different piece.
From Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) Or Italy by Greig, R. S.
Throughout the volumes of the Diary there are few things of which he speaks with franker and more enthusiastic delight than the enjoyment which he derives from punchinello.
From Among Famous Books by Kelman, John
So contemptible had the Pope become, even in the eyes of devout Catholics, that de Maistre called the inflexible but supine Pontiff a punchinello of no importance.
From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) by Sloane, William Milligan
