Brio
vigor; vivacity.
Contemporary Examples
Goodfellas Turns 20 Sean Macaulay September 20, 2010
Historical Examples
Music-Study in Germany Amy Fay
Folkways William Graham Sumner
Letters of a Diplomat’s Wife Mary King Waddington
The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition Rudyard Kipling
The Sorrows of Satan Marie Corelli
Heroic Spain Elizabeth Boyle O’Reilly
Shawl-Straps Louisa M. Alcott
Cousin Betty Honore de Balzac
noun
liveliness or vigour; spirit See also con brio
n.
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