Bravoed vs Bravoes - What's the difference?
bravoed | bravoes |
(bravo)
A hired soldier; an assassin; a desperado.
* {{quote-book, year=1753, author=Theophilus Cibber, title=The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753), chapter=, edition=
, passage=As for Rochester, he had not genius enough to enter the lists with Dryden, so he fell upon another method of revenge; and meanly hired bravoes to assault him.}}
* , title=Red Eve, chapter=, edition=
, passage="Why should I fight the King of England's bravoes ?" inquired Acour in a languid voice of those who stood about him, a question at which they laughed.}}
* 1953 , (Raymond Chandler), The Long Goodbye , Penguin 2010, page 104:
A shout of "!"
* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=Kate Dickinson Sweetser, title=Boys and girls from Thackeray, chapter=, edition=
, passage=There was a roar of bravoes rang through the house; Pen bellowing with the loudest.}}
The letter B in the ICAO spelling alphabet.
Used to express acclaim, especially to a performer.
To cheer or applaud, especially by saying bravo!
* {{quote-book, year=1910, author=May Agnes Fleming, title=The Baronet's Bride, chapter=, edition=
, passage="And my Sunbeam was bravoed , and encored, and crowned with flowers, was she not?" }}
* {{quote-book, year=1899, author=Richard Le Gallienne, title=Young Lives, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Together they had bravoed the great tragedians, and together hopelessly worshipped the beautiful faces, enskied and sainted, of famous actresses. }}
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As a verb bravoed
is (bravo).As a noun bravoes is
.bravoed
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Verb
(head)bravo
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Noun
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- Because the headache will always be there, a weapon that never wears out and is as deadly as the bravo ’s rapier or Lucrezia's poison vial.
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Synonyms
* (hired soldier) seeInterjection
- Bravo, you have done a brilliant job!
Usage notes
Sometimes the (non-anglicized) Italian female form brava' is used for a woman, and the Italian plural forms '''brave''' (feminine) and ' bravi (masculine or mixed).Synonyms
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