punchinello

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

She sat very rigid, far forward on the bench, compressed into a terrible corset which forced her breast and back into the humps of a punchinello; her legs hanging just short of the floor.

From The Idol of Paris by Bernhardt, Sarah