Bruni

name

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Italian.

    "I even discovered in writing this newsletter that my colleague Frank Bruni had taken the phrase to task last year (“the most degrading sequence of five words in the English language”) and William Safire had commented on it in The Times all the way back in 2006."

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"I even discovered in writing this newsletter that my colleague Frank Bruni had taken the phrase to task last year (“the most degrading sequence of five words in the English language”) and William Safire had commented on it in The Times all the way back in 2006."

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian Bruni.

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