brava

1. alternativeAlternative form of bravo spoken to a female performer

   BRAVA! Brava! Brava! to Caryl Rivers for her article “Why Can't Hollywood See That 35 Is Beautiful, Too?” It's about time people recognized the double standard in films where men and women are concerned.

   1973 May 13, Connie Oliva, “Movie Mailbag”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Jul 2025

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   When ballet stars perform in San Francisco, they always dine at Bali’s, the domain of a Manchurian-born Armenian, owner Armen Baliantz. […] An ex-ballerina herself, she has now brought all her discipline, grace, and charm to the running of Bali’s, and all we can say is “brava!”

   1983, Alena Lasley, Paul Lasley, Frommer’s 1983-84 Guide to San Francisco, New York, N.Y.: Frommer/Pasmantier Publishers, →ISBN, page 57

   This message sticks in the memory as a small masterpiece of innuendo. / congrats on sublime times mandate pun intended no congrats from mama morton whom phoned per request mama not thrilled for boy that he interview mann mama thrilled for mann that he interviewed by boy till palermo immer noch deine / marcia / Brava. Brilliant Mama’s boy baiting.

   2005, Frederic Morton, “May 1955: Best Man on the Baltic”, in Runaway Waltz: A Memoir from Vienna to New York, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, pages 91–92

plural bravas

1. A shout of "brava!".

1. alternativeAlternative form of Barawa (“Somalian city”).

1. One of the ten islands of Cape Verde