adorno

[ uh-dawr-noh ]

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noun

, Ceramics.

, plural a·dor·nos.

Adorno

/ aˈdɔrno /

AdornoTheodor Wiesengrund19031969MGermanPHILOSOPHY: philosopherSOCIAL SCIENCE: sociologistMUSIC: critic Theodor Wiesengrund. 1903–69, German philosopher, sociologist, and music critic. His writings include The Philosophy of the New Music (1949) and Negative Dialectics (1966)

Origin of adorno¹

< Spanish, noun derivative of adornar < Latin adōrnāre to adorn

Alexander and Adorno were doing what they could to save the officer on the passenger side, Liu.

A third medic, Pedro Adorno, was out front and he joined them.

One does wonder, however, what critic Theodore Adorno would think.

The Caporali, on their side, called the Genoese Adorno into the island.

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