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‖ gracioso
(greɪʃɪˈəʊsəʊ; in Sp. graθiˈoso)
Also 7 gratioso.
[Sp.; etymologically = gracious a. In sense 1, perh. from the It. grazioso.]
†1.
a. ? An attractive person.
b. A court favourite. Obs.
1650Bulwer Anthropomet. (1653) 133 We in this Island..doe no way like of a shooing-horn-like Nose; neither do wee esteem such to be gratiosos. a1670Hacket Abp. Williams i. (1692) 114 The Lord Marquess of Buckingham, then a great Gratioso, was put on by the Prince to ask the King's liking to this Amourous Adventure. Ibid. ii. 195 He knew not whether it were a Synastria, a Star which reigned at both their Births, that made him a Gratioso to so brave a Lady. 1670Temple Let. Wks. 1720 II. 224 Passing his Time with his Virginals, his Dwarfs, and his Graciosoes.
2. The buffoon of Spanish comedy.
1749Smollett Gil Blas vii. vi. (1782) III. 38 At length the Gracioso presented himself to open the scene. 1808Scott Dryden's Wks. I. 77 The character of the gracioso, or clown. 1837Q. Rev. LIX. 78 The principal character in these lighter afterpieces is the ‘Gracioso’, who has superseded the ‘Introitu’, the clown or rustic, who in the older, less artificial Spanish plays spoke to the audience and explained what was going on. 1881Max Müller Sel. Ess. I. v. 422 A Brahman, who acts the part of gracioso in the Indian drama.
Hence graciˈosoly adv. (nonce-wd.) [-ly2], in the manner of a ‘gracioso’.
1879E. Fitzgerald Lett. I. 443 The Italian Carnival ended with somewhat of the same Burlesque Ceremonial, but was thought to mimic too Graciosoly that of the Church. |
