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signor

[seen-yawr, -yohr, sin-yawr, -yohr, see-nyawr] / ˈsin jɔr, -joʊr, sɪnˈjɔr, -ˈjoʊr, siˈnjɔr /
NOUN
mister
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Jobs with Justice, is a signor of the IRS complaint.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 15, 2015

Strange to think that those two movie brats – mister shark attack and signor blood-and-pasta – have now turned into Hollywood's leading purveyors of quality historical drama.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 8, 2013

All 109 of them. peaboss, tobe82, notmuch, edinamikie, LarsHEriksen, donandgeorge, stevenjwillis, signor, Vesuvial, adamgilbey, asbb.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 11, 2011

That will be all the more romantic, signor pittore.”

From The Finger of Fate A Romance by Mayne Reid

No thanks, signor; I have saved your life; and a good action rewards itself.

From The Castle of Andalusia A Comic Opera, in Three Acts by John O'Keeffe

Giuseppe Prezzolini noted, “The fact that they had to lead such difficult lives, made of the signori keen observers of men.”

From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2011

"Pardon, signori," said I, stepping lightly over the gunwale, "I have had a sharp run for it;" and away we went!

From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Charles James Lever

Be seated, signori," I said to them, "and take one of these cigars.

From A Roman Singer by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

"Perhaps the signori would deign to come under our roof, father," said the maiden.

From The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

That is his message, signori, to one in this house.

From Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 by Francis J. (Francis Joseph) Reynolds

It is a privilege your grey-haired signors solely can enjoy; but young men now-a-days may make some claims to it.

From The Young Duke by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield

"Amen!—and now, then, what is your force? for these eighty or a hundred signors of the Aventine,—worthy men, doubtless,—scarce suffice for a revolt!"

From Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton

At last the grave and reverend signors had made their choice; Bullinger’s Decades, at nine shillings, was selected, and Beza’s New Testament, at sixteen: Aubrey received the money, gave the change, and delivered the books.

From It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by M. (Madelaine) Irwin

They therefore divided the city into quarters, and for each created three signors.

From History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy by Niccolò Machiavelli

"Shall we not learn the language of the signors from China?" asked Rea.

From The Hunter Cats of Connorloa by Helen Hunt Jackson


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