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Word: vanotto (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1962-1962
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Usage:

...when his wife's cousins, fleeing famine in Sicily, enter the U.S. illegally, go to work on the docks, come to live in the stevedore's cold-water flat. One of the cousins is a sober married man (Raymond Pellegrin), but the other is a charming gio-vanotto (Jean Sorel) who soon falls in love with the niece. Disturbed, the stevedore at first makes fun of the newcomer, but the niece falls in love with the boy anyway. Desperate, the stevedore resorts to slander: "He marry you he gotta da right be American citizen." Indignantly, the girl decides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oedipus in Flatbush | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

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