Giocondan

English

Etymology

From Italian Gioconda +‎ -n.

Adjective

Giocondan (comparative more Giocondan, superlative most Giocondan)

1. (rare) Resembling or characteristic of the Mona Lisa.
   • 1936, B[oris] B[asil] Bogoslovsky, The Ideal School, The Macmillan Company, pages 140 and 145:

     Probably Mrs. Le Brunn noticed my reaction, because she continued with her somewhat Giocondan smile: […] Mrs. Le Brunn, again with her Giocondan smile, explained: […]

   • 1995, Henry Mintzberg, James Brian Quinn, Sumantra Ghoshal, The Strategy Process: European Edition, Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 549:

     According to a journalist for the Spanish magazine Ranking he was ‘Cultured, extroverted in small circles, shy before the large public, cold as ice... “Machiavelli reincarnated”, but his quasi-giocondan smile reveals a certain human essence.’

   • 1999, Patrick R. Penland, Shakedown Lifestyle: Rapelling Memory Mountain, toExcel Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, pages 20 and 31:

     Nearly all female smile, which now seemed common on women’s faces even when encountering male strangers, had for him turned into giocondan leers. […] The future, he surmised, had perpetually been just around the corner, beckoning with the smile of a giocondan pay-off.

   • 2001, William Page, William Page: Greatest Hits, 1970-2000 (Greatest Hits Series; number 14), Pudding House Publications, →ISBN, page 27:

     He responds with a wink, she with a Giocondan smile.

   • 2002, Christopher Michalski, transl., The Last Winter, 1stBooks, translation of original by Juan Carden, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 22:

     Vianka watched him with her Giocondan smile, while he stared at her, unable to comprehend what she had just said.

   • 2002 October 20, Boris Fuller, “GREAT FUN guess who this is”, in alt.buddha.short.fat.guy (Usenet):

     ...or shall we merely smile a giocondan smile and assert that we are neither tang nor not-tang both tang and not-tang

Synonyms

• Mona Lisan