Cosa Nostran.
/ˈkəʊzə ˈnɒstrə/ The Mafia in the U.S.A.
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1963 Economist 17 Aug. 589/1 A former member of organised crime's ruling body, Mr Joseph Valachi, has named names and drawn a master plan of the Syndicate (which the underworld refers to as Cosa Nostra).
1964 S. Bellow Herzog (1965) 35 A politician..who knew the Syndicate, the Juice Men, the Policy kings, Cosa Nostra, and all the hoods.
1967 A. Hunter Gently Continental xi. 179 You'll be very well protected for longer than Cosa Nostra will bother about you.
1968 A. Diment Bang Bang Birds i. iii. 30 ‘You are listening to the voice of Cosa Nostra,’ he intoned.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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