2. Noun. Playboy, someone who does not work and devotes himself to a life without commitments or responsibilities. ¹
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Definition of Lazzarone
1. [n -RONI]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lazzarone
Literary usage of Lazzarone
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bayadere and Other Sonnets by Francis Saltus Saltus (1894)
"Among rich, amber fruits in luscious heaps The lazzarone dreams by dreamy seas ; Or,
... And, when war warms the lazzarone's ire, He also wakens, ..."
2. Dictionary of Americanisms. by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"... was applied in the first place to the vagrants of our large towns, in which
sense it is equivalent to the lazzarone. of Naples or the lepero of Mexico. ..."
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