Definizione monolingua

desperado

desperado (plural desperadoes or desperados)

1. a bold outlaw, especially one from southern portions of the Wild West
   • 1850, Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets, The present time

     The kind of persons who excite or give signal to such revolutions — students, young men of letters […], or fierce and justly bankrupt desperadoes, acting everywhere on the discontent of the millions and blowing it into flame, — might give rise to reflections as to the character of our epoch.

   • 1918, Willa Cather, My Antonia, Mirado Modern Classics, paperback edition, page 6

     Surely this was the face of a desperado.

Definizione dizionario desperado

bandito

desperado

fuorilegge

Altri significati:

a bold outlaw, especially one from southern portions of the Wild West