rare–1. [It. famoso, ad. L. fāmōsus see FAMOSE a.] A notorious person.
1663. J. Heath, Flagellum; or the Life and Death, Birth and Burial of Oliver Cromwell, the late Usurper (1672), 9. Fate, when it had decreed and ordain’d the unhappy birth of this Famoso, by her most secret and hidden malice brought him into the world without any terrible remark of his portentuous Life … that the Scourge of the English Empire and Nation was born.
