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Gioconda|dʒ(ɪ)əˈkɒndə|
[It., fem. of giocondo (see jocund a.).]
The name of a painting (in full La Gioconda; also known as the Mona Lisa) by Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), used allusively attrib. to describe an enigmatic smile resembling that of the woman in this painting.
1921A. Huxley in Eng. Review XXXIII. 89 Miss Spence was smiling too: her Gioconda smile, he had once called it... Miss Spence..always tried to live up to the Leonardo standard. 1964T. Helmore Affair at Quala iv. 113 She looked at me and gave me a Gioconda smile. 1967L. Peters Riot '71 110 Smith smiled again, putting a slightly mysterious, Gioconda quality into it this time. |