Giocondan

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1. rareResembling or characteristic of the Mona Lisa.

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

   2001, William Page, William Page: Greatest Hits, 1970-2000 (Greatest Hits Series; number 14), Pudding House Publications, →ISBN, page 27

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

   1936, B[oris] B[asil] Bogoslovsky, The Ideal School, The Macmillan Company, pages 140 and 145

   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.’

   1995, Henry Mintzberg, James Brian Quinn, Sumantra Ghoshal, The Strategy Process: European Edition, Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 549

   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.

   1999, Patrick R. Penland, Shakedown Lifestyle: Rapelling Memory Mountain, toExcel Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, pages 20 and 31

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

   2002, Christopher Michalski, transl., The Last Winter, 1stBooks, translation of original by Juan Carden, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 22

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

   2002 October 20, Boris Fuller, “GREAT FUN guess who this is”, in alt.buddha.short.fat.guy (Usenet)

   Synonyms: Mona Lisan