Meaning of Giocondan | Babel Free

Definitions

Resembling or characteristic of the Mona Lisa.

rare

Examples

“Probably Mrs. Le Brunn noticed my reaction, because she continued with her somewhat Giocondan smile:[…]Mrs. Le Brunn, again with her Giocondan smile, explained:[…]”

“According to a journalist for the Spanish magazine Ranking he was ‘Cultured, extroverted in small circles, shy before the large public, cold as ice... “Machiavelli reincarnated”, but his quasi-giocondan smile reveals a certain human essence.’”

“Nearly all female smile, which now seemed common on women’s faces even when encountering male strangers, had for him turned into giocondan leers.[…]The future, he surmised, had perpetually been just around the corner, beckoning with the smile of a giocondan pay-off.”

“He responds with a wink, she with a Giocondan smile.”

“Vianka watched him with her Giocondan smile, while he stared at her, unable to comprehend what she had just said.”

“...or shall we merely smile a giocondan smile and assert that we are neither tang nor not-tang both tang and not-tang”

CEFR level