NOUN
- an owner or proprietor of an inn in Italy
- an employer who exploits Italian immigrants in the U.S.
How To Use padrone In A Sentence
- Peck's padrones emerge as ‘entrepreneurs of space,’ providing critical links and a variety of functions in the volatile transnational labor markets that spread out across the North American continent.
- One day I got work at the fruit market through the padrone.
- Such a leader is almost always under the patronage of a "boss" in New York or a 'padrone' in Italy, who uses his influence to protect the members of the gang when in legal difficulties and find them jobs when out of work and in need of funds. Courts and Criminals
- In this way the padrone provided American companies with large numbers of employees for which they were paid handsomely.
- Not long ago people like Renato and Theresa worked for a padrone as serfs, for no pay.
- The situation changed dramatically in July at the ceremony to formally turn over Palazzo Grassi to its new padrone.
- Padrone, I swear by the Holy Virgin I have never taken advantage of your kindness.
- You can enjoy a perfect Tuscan kitchen and the hospitality of the Padrone and his team in the heart of Vienna.
- Her poverty she easily conceived of; plenty of signorine in Italy were poor; and she protected her in it with the duty she did not divide quite evenly between her and the padrone. Ragged Lady — Volume 2
- Here they re-created their cultural patterns and social networks, including banks established by padrones (labor contractors), mutual-aid societies providing sickness and death benefits, and the festa of the town's patron saint.