NOUN
- an owner or proprietor of an inn in Italy
- an employer who exploits Italian immigrants in the U.S.
How To Use padrone In A Sentence
- They let me take a fatt for the padrone-God. rest 0a aoul-and when I'm out of the slammer, I'm deported. Greenmantle
- The padrone was an ethnic intermediary and labour agent with the resources necessary to conduct the trade.
- He must be down there on that beach searching, calling his padrone's name, perhaps. The Call of the Blood
- He was using it to pay off the padrone for your ticket to America. Uprising
- “But, but—the padrone gave us the money to come here,” Bella said. Uprising
- Lori Eanes for The Wall Street Journal Dungeness crab deviled eggs with chipotle aioli "This is traditional fare, with a twist," says Tisha Hilario, a 46-year-old software trainer at a nearby federal building, after finishing a lunch that included a $13 mushroom quesadilla with Oaxaca cheese, pickled padrone peppers and scallions. Bocanova
- Lori Eanes for The Wall Street Journal Dungeness crab deviled eggs with chipotle aioli "This is traditional fare, with a twist," says Tisha Hilario, a 46-year-old software trainer at a nearby federal building, after finishing a lunch that included a $13 mushroom quesadilla with Oaxaca cheese, pickled padrone peppers and scallions. Bocanova
- Based on an autobiographical book by Gavino Ledda, Padre Padrone is filmed in Sardinian, a regional Italian dialect. An Experiment for Fake Memoirs - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
- And so one night, having indulged a little too freely in a local wine called ‘The Tears of Christ,’ I confessed to the hotel padrone a furtive secret.
- One of these is Giuliano Binanti, the padrone of the Giuliano group of restaurants in Edinburgh, who each autumn acts as my mushroom mentor.
