MURILLO

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• MURILLO (noun)
  The noun MURILLO has 1 sense:

1. Spanish painter (1617-1682)

  Familiarity information: MURILLO used as a noun is very rare.

• MURILLO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Spanish painter (1617-1682)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Bartolome Esteban Murillo; Murillo

Instance hypernyms:

painter (an artist who paints)

 Context examples 

“Yes, sir, Don Murillo, the Tiger of San Pedro,” said Baynes.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Our months of partnership had not been so uneventful as he had stated, for I find, on looking over my notes, that this period includes the case of the papers of ex-President Murillo, and also the shocking affair of the Dutch steamship Friesland, which so nearly cost us both our lives.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Swarthy boys and dark-eyed Madonnas, staring at you from one corner of the studio, suggested Murillo; oily brown shadows of faces with a lurid streak in the wrong place, meant Rembrandt; buxom ladies and dropiscal infants, Rubens; and Turner appeared in tempests of blue thunder, orange lightning, brown rain, and purple clouds, with a tomato-colored splash in the middle, which might be the sun or a bouy, a sailor's shirt or a king's robe, as the spectator pleased.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“Henderson,” the inspector answered, “is Don Murillo, once called the Tiger of San Pedro.”

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They had gagged me, and Murillo twisted my arm round until I gave him the address.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

How they murdered him I do not know, save that it was Murillo’s hand who struck him down, for Lopez had remained to guard me.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He could do little during the day, for Murillo took every precaution and never went out save with his satellite Lucas, or Lopez as he was known in the days of his greatness.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To us there is no fiend in hell like Juan Murillo, and no peace in life while his victims still cry for vengeance.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Unhappily, Murillo heard of his excellence, recalled him on some pretext, and had him shot.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)