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sbirro|ˈzbirro|
Pl. sbirri |ˈzbirri|; also 7 anglicized sbirres, -is.
[a. It. sbirro, whence F. sbirre; cf. Sp. esbirro.]
An Italian police officer.
a1668R. Lassels Voy. Italy ii. (1670) 252 This Governour..hath besides his own guards, a Barigello or Captain of the Sbirri or Sergeants. 1687Lond. Gaz. No. 2224/1 The Sbirres or Officers of Justice. 1688Lett. conc. Present St. Italy 119 The Sbiri (a sort of men like our Bailiffs) carried him to another [Judge]. 1693Lond. Gaz. No. 2890/1 Sbirris or Officers of Justice. 1820Byron Mar. Fal. ii. ii. 28 Had I been silent, not a sbirro but Had kept me in his eye, as meditating..revenge. 1888L. Oliphant Episodes 183, I rolled through Italy in a diligence, in company with sundry Papal sbirri as fellow-passengers. |