grande

Definitions

Of a cup of coffee: smaller than venti but larger than tall, usually 16 ounces (~ 455 ml).

US, not-comparable

Equivalents

Examples

“Almost symbolically, Lopahin still plays the peasant and Lyubov the grande mistress.”

“A supremely happy family waved goodbye to an elderly grande dame and a namesake who had just enrolled in her first lesson in becoming a grande lady.[…]In Litchfield, Connecticut, the Hutchinson brothers rushed to tell⟳ the grande old dame her daughter was making history.”

“In Shannon O’Cork’s The Murder⟳ of Muriel Lake, which is about a Writers of Mystery Convention (aka MWA?), grande mistress Muriel Lake was murdered.”

“THIS GRANDE LADY IS DIS-TIN-GUISH-A-BLE IN HER DEMURE DELIVERIES. DELIGHTFUL AND DAZZLING, THE LADY IS DEFINITELY A DIVA.”

“That made eight deaths in a matter⟳ of a few days—all of them tied inexplicably to this “grande lady” herself—Meadowdale Prison.”

“Her silence now had the quality of the comfortable silences between friends, not the half-respectful, half-fearful types of a servant not spoken to by her grande mistress.”

“Annabella Kristina Ramona Toaltz was a grande name⟳ for a grande woman.”

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