Mona Lisa

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

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noun

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

Mona Lisa

/ ˈməʊnə ˈliːzə /

noun

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

Mona Lisa

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.

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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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To the Louvre in Paris, where she saw “Mona Lisa.”

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But the producer of films such as “Mona Lisa Smile” and “Hustlers” says there is no shortage of stars who are queued up for a part.

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