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Gioconda

in La Gioconda, name of the da Vinci painting also known as the Mona Lisa, from Italian gioconda, fem. of giocondo, from Latin jocundus (see jocund).

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To make up for this self­ish thought, he called one of the talked-about new places o£ the mo­ment, a Cuban-themed bar-restaurant in Chelsea named Gio in honor of Dona Gioconda, an elderly diva whose star was shining brightly that Buena Vista summer and in whose languid smoke-trail of a voice all of old Havana came back to swaggering, swaying, seducing, smooching life.

You can't find a computer that's going to paint a Gioconda smile on the Mona Lisa.