Obs. Also 7 corranto, curranto(e, coranta, caranto. [A variant of COURANT, modified in form in the same way as the prec.] A letter or paper containing public news; a gazette, news-letter, or newspaper; = COURANT sb.2
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel., Democritus to Rdr. 3. New books, every day, pamphlets, currantoes, stories.
1625. Meade, in Ellis, Orig. Lett., I. 318, III. 209. I send you a Corranto,… it was well aired and smok’t before I received it, as our Lettres all used to be.
a. 1635. Corbet, Poems (1807), 140. Corantoes, diets, packets, newes.
attrib. a. 1652. Brome, Crt. Beggar, II. Wks. 1873, I. 212. I … stood … at the Coranto-shop to read the last great news.
