grande

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

plural grandes

1. USA grande cup of coffee.

   As she went to work the only concern prominent in her mind was a strong desire for a couple of grandes from Starbucks.

   1997, J. H. Marks, Conspiracy Theory, Signet, →ISBN, page 148

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   Kevin considered bumming a cig, but he doubted any of them would part with one. Clutching their Starbucks grandes, guarding their garment bags with practiced eyes—how much sympathy could they be expected to muster?

   1998, Doug Guinan, California Screaming, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 287

   “Harrumph,” Daddy said, flipping through the morning’s deliveries – the L.A. Times, the New York Times and two grandes from Starbucks: decaf Colombian for my stressed superior, and a nonfat capp with a double espresso shot for me.

   1999, Elizabeth Lenhard, Bettypalooza, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 80

plural grandes

1. alternativeAlternative form of grandee.

   339. Portrait of a Spanish Grande.

   1943, National Academy of Design Exhibition Record, 1826-1860, page 73

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   Console yourself with the practical philosophy of our countryman, Private Curtis, who was the picture of a Spanish Grande of the first class, and whom I once heard after a Lenten dinner extemporize with great good-humour this Leonine distich:⁠—“Quod deficit in ferculis / Supplebitur in poculis!”

   1847, T[erence] M[cMahon] Hughes, “Hercules Rafferty.—An Asturianillo.—An Irish stew.—A Bottle-Hero.—Don Tito de Chiclana.—O’Gorman.—Perils of love-making in the Peninsula.” (chapter VI), in An Overland Journey to Lisbon at the Close of 1846; with a Picture of the Actual State of Spain and Portugal, volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], page 89

   When we read in almost every book in which the life of Philip is described that he was a man of haughty character with an aversion to every vulgarity; when we read of his ability in courting ladies, his manly beauty, his fine dress as a Spanish grande, we incline to think that before us stands a nobleman of kindred feelings, of carefully fostered nobility.

   1912, Tiemen De Vries, Dutch History, Art and Literature for Americans: Lectures Given in the University of Chicago, Eerdmans-Sevensma Company, pages 85–86

   With the exception of the vital Otto Woegerer as Juan, a Spanish grande, equally quick to draw his rapier against Hamlet as to appear a mystically presaging friend, the rest of the large cast fills its space with satisfactory competence.

   1936 November 17, The New York Times Theater Reviews, pages 15–16

   Else, how could it be that a little Miss Mischief dresses up as a homely little Dutch farm girl, an awkward and uncouth youth parades in the costume and with the air of a Spanish grande, the respectable, quiet housewife becomes a sailor’s sweetheart, a little boy flirt assumes the detached air of a high priest a painstaking bookkeeper masquerades as a hold-up man or a bank robber with a record as a policeman?

   1952, German Review, page 19

   Already you’re dressed like a Spanish grande, b’ God!

   1966, Paul Bailey, The Claws of the Hawk: The Incredible Life of Wahker the Ute, Westernlore, →LCCN, page 90

comparative more grande · superlative most grande

1. alternativeAlternative form of grand.

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

   1972, Russell Sage College, Studies in the Twentieth Century, page 79

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   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.

   1993, Donald S. Metz, Madame President, New Saga Publishers, →ISBN, pages 147, 270

   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.

   1997, Alzina Stone Dale, Mystery Reader’s Walking Guide: New York, →ISBN, page 217

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

   2011, Richard Allen Brooks, “Dame Johnson”, in From Life to Death, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 28

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

   2013, Chet Belmonte, Meadowdale: A Saga of Confinement, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 223

   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.

   2016, Victor Milán, The Dinosaur Knights, Tor Books, →ISBN, page 101

plural Grandes

1. countableuncountableA municipality in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
2. countableuncountableA surname from the Romance languages.