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Genovese

Genovese \Genovese\ adj. 1. same as Genoese.

Syn: Genoese.

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Genovese

Genovese is an Italian surname meaning, properly, someone from Genoa.

Usage examples of "genovese".

They also wanted me on the fleet that is set to deal with the Aragonese, Barbary corsairs and the Genovese, too.

Genovese as he began filling a white paper hot-cup from the coffeemaker.

In November 1957, Genovese summoned all America’s top mafiosi to a meeting at the estate of a businessman named Joe Barbara, at Apalachin, in New York State.

No charges were made as a result of the Apalachin round-up - all the gangsters had perfectly legitimate reasons for being there - but the story made nationwide headlines, and Genovese lost face.

The Ja ck that t e lls us to stand and w atch a s a Catherine Genovese gets k n i f ed, the Jack that condones Vietnam because we don’t care to get i n volved, the Jack that watches the geno c ide of the Bla c k Panthers with righteous unconcern, the Jack who accepts a My Lai slaught er as the “fortunes of war,” the Jack that we need.

Southwick - old enough, as he said on one occasion when trying to din some mathematics into him, to be his great-grandfather - liked him, so did Alberto Rossi, the Genovese, an able seaman who kept his history in Genoa a secret (most people were sure that he had stabbed a man) but whose casual remarks from time to time gave glimpses of a lurid past.