▪ I. † ˈgrando1 Obs.
[pseudo-Sp., from the notion that Sp. masc. ns. end in -o. Cf. grandio.]
= grandee.
| 1623–4 Middleton & Rowley Sp. Gipsy ii. i. 28 In th' opinion of the best, grandoes, dukes, marquesses, condes, and other titulados. 1634 S. R. Noble Soldier ii. i. in Bullen O. Pl. I. 283 Grandoes and Lords of Spaine be witnesse all What here I cancell. |
▪ II. ‖ ˈgrando2 Obs.
[L. grandō hail; in early modern physiology used for a minute granular body.]
(See quot.)
| 1650 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xxvii. (ed. 2) 151 Whether it [the chicken] be not made out of the grando, gallature, germe or tredde of the egge..doth seem of lesser doubt. |