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genovese
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Genovese is an Italian surname meaning, properly, someone from Genoa .
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Genovese \Genovese\ adj. 1. same as Genoese . Syn: Genoese.
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.