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Answer for the clue "Raphael subject ", 7 letters:
madonna
Alternative clues for the word madonna
- Person on dozens of US stamps since 1966
- "Ray of Light" singer who once worked at Dunkin' Donuts
- Singer with one name
- Lady in a Beatles song
- United States pop singer and sex symbol during the 1980s (born in 1958)
- "Papa Don't Preach" singer
- 1983 self-titled debut album
- Religious statue
- ''4 Minutes'' singer
Word definitions for madonna in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, "Italian lady," from Italian madonna , from Old Italian ma donna (Italian mia donna ) "my lady," from ma "my" + donna "lady," from Latin domina (see dame ). Sense of "picture or statue of the Virgin Mary" is from 1640s. The U.S. singer/dancer (full ...
Usage examples of madonna.
The acidhead tried to use his eyes like electrical x-rays to see those Madonna milk duds beneath her angel shirt.
Madonna del Bordone, the Madonna delle Grazie, and the Madonna called of Provenzano.
Art and Religion spring from the same root, but coincide only at the outset, as in fetichism, the worship of the Black Stone of the Caaba, or the wonder-working Madonnas of Italy.
Christ taken for the last time before Pilate, the Original journey to Calvary, Fainting Madonna, Crucifixion, Entombment, Ascension, and the old church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary now removed.
Sistine Madonna with the two chubby-cheeked angels at the lower edge, the Pilsudski medal, already mentioned, and the consecrated amulet from Czestochowa beside a photograph of the commander of the Narvik destroyers.
Mahlke was wearing something on his neck again, appended to a black shoelace: not a screwdriver, but the bronze medallion with the so-called Black Madonna of Czestochowa in low relief.
Madonna turns her back to the audience, bends over and farts purple ectoplasm at them.
At twelve, in the costume of a choirboy, he had lifted a priceless fruitwood Madonna over his head and marched out with a church processional, singing at the top of his lungs.
The original is now, after it is too late, carefully guarded and protected in its old place in the Dominican convent of the Madonna della Grazia, Milan.
But I dreamed neither of the Matka Boska Czestochowska nor of the Black Madonna.
Leslie grinned internally at the image of holo-Richard hovering in midocean like some craggy Madonna of the Fishes, clownfish and Moorish idols nibbling through the seaweedy strands of his hair.
Il Zoppo was down there, attempting celebrative back flips that were more like lanky pratfalls, and also the Madonna of the Organs and Count Agnello Ziani-Ziani Orseolo and all his bizarre retinue, the Count tipping back his mask and laughing the fierce strident laugh of the Venetian Lion-Planter, Pantalone the Magnificent.
Here and there were wretched straw huts, with groups of fever-stricken people crouching over the embers of miserable fires, and here and there were dirty pothouses, which alternated with wooden crosses of the Christ and grass-covered shrines of the Madonna.
The tattoo on her shoulder arrested my eyes: a Madonna and child, colorful and Raphaelesque, exquisitely inked.
Madonna or Josh Brolin or Amy Locane or Veronica Webb or Stephen Dorff or Ed Limato or Richard Gere or Lela Rochon or Ace of Base, where turkey-burgers were always served, which we always washed down with pink-grapefruit iced tea, and bonfires were always lit throughout the city along with the giant cones of klieg lights announcing premieres.