grande

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian grande. Doublet of grand and grandee.

adj

1. (chiefly US) Of a cup of coffee: smaller than venti but larger than tall, usually 16 ounces (~ 455 ml).

noun

1. (chiefly US) A grande cup of coffee.
   As she went to work the only concern prominent in her mind was a strong desire for a couple of grandes from Starbucks. 1997, J. H. Marks, Conspiracy Theory, Signet, page 148
   Kevin considered bumming a cig, but he doubted any of them would part with one. Clutching their Starbucks grandes, guarding their garment bags with practiced eyes—how much sympathy could they be expected to muster? 1998, Doug Guinan, California Screaming, Simon & Schuster, page 287
   “Harrumph,” Daddy said, flipping through the morning’s deliveries – the L.A. Times, the New York Times and two grandes from Starbucks: decaf Colombian for my stressed superior, and a nonfat capp with a double espresso shot for me. 1999, Elizabeth Lenhard, Bettypalooza, Pocket Books, page 80

Etymology 2

adj

1. Alternative form of grand
   Almost symbolically, Lopahin still plays the peasant and Lyubov the grande mistress. 1972, Russell Sage College, Studies in the Twentieth Century, page 79
   A supremely happy family waved goodbye to an elderly grande dame and a namesake who had just enrolled in her first lesson in becoming a grande lady.[…]In Litchfield, Connecticut, the Hutchinson brothers rushed to tell the grande old dame her daughter was making history. 1993, Donald S. Metz, Madame President, New Saga Publishers, pages 147, 270
   In Shannon O’Cork’s The Murder of Muriel Lake, which is about a Writers of Mystery Convention (aka MWA?), grande mistress Muriel Lake was murdered. 1997, Alzina Stone Dale, Mystery Reader’s Walking Guide: New York, page 217
   THIS GRANDE LADY IS DIS-TIN-GUISH-A-BLE IN HER DEMURE DELIVERIES. DELIGHTFUL AND DAZZLING, THE LADY IS DEFINITELY A DIVA. 2011, Richard Allen Brooks, “Dame Johnson”, in From Life to Death, Xlibris, page 28
   That made eight deaths in a matter of a few days—all of them tied inexplicably to this “grande lady” herself—Meadowdale Prison. 2013, Chet Belmonte, Meadowdale: A Saga of Confinement, AuthorHouse, page 223
   Her silence now had the quality of the comfortable silences between friends, not the half-respectful, half-fearful types of a servant not spoken to by her grande mistress. 2016, Victor Milán, The Dinosaur Knights, Tor Books, page 101
   Annabella Kristina Ramona Toaltz was a grande name for a grande woman. 2016, Jennie Gilbert Ross, The Wrong Side of the Blanket, Archway Publishing