Mona Lisa

[moh-nuh lee-suh, lee-zuh]

noun

1. Italian La Gioconda. a portrait (1503?–05?) by Leonardo da Vinci.

Mona Lisa

/ ˈməʊnə ˈliːzə /

noun

1. Also called: La Gioconda. a portrait of a young woman painted by Leonardo da Vinci, admired for her enigmatic smile

Mona Lisa

1. A painting by Leonardo da Vinci of a woman with a mysterious smile. It is one of the most readily recognized paintings in the world.

Example Sentences

The corners of its mouth, called the gape, stopped around the middle of its eyes and turned up, which someone described as a “Mona Lisa smile,” she said.

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Forget throwing soup on the “Mona Lisa” — the Bezos wedding protesters might do something truly offensive: They are threatening to screw up traffic on the big day.

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Eliot famously called Shakespeare’s tragedy “the ‘Mona Lisa’ of literature.”

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Both “Sweet Dreams” and “Mona Lisa” were surprisingly played on tour, and a third single is planned for the Asian leg, which kicks off in the Phillipines on April 12.

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Congratulations—”Mona Lisa” is in the Billboard Hot 100 as of this week and it’s your seventh song as a solo artist to reach that milestone.

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