1863 H. W. Bates Naturalist on River Amazons II. iv. 265 The old Indians told us..the turtles were ‘ladino’ (cunning), and would take no notice of the beating a second day.

1892 Dial. Notes 1 191 Ladíno, in Spanish, learned, knowing Latin; then crafty, cunning. In Texas as a noun, a vicious, unmanageable horse, full of cunning and tricks.

1929 J. F. Dobie Vaquero of Brush Country ii. 14 They were all outlaws, ladinos, wild as bucks, cunning and ready to fight anything that got in front of them... Among them were wrinkled-necked maverick cows and bulls that had never had a loop tossed over their heads.

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §916/2 Ladinos, outlaw cattle, unbranded strays.

1877 Encycl. Brit. VI. 682/2 The inhabitants of Cuba are divided into four classes..; those under servitude, constituting the fourth class, divided into the bozales, those recently brought from Africa,—the ladinos, those imported before the law of 1821 prohibiting the slave trade,—and the criollos, those born on the island.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 395/1 The number of Ladinos (whites and persons of mixed blood) [in Salvador in 1887] was returned at 772,200, and of Indians at 234,648.

1934 A. Huxley Beyond Mexique Bay 69 Whites and ladinos were conspicuously absent from the ranks.

1934 A. Huxley Beyond Mexique Bay 69 These Quichés and Cakchiquels from the hills are as foreign in the white and ladino capital as Nepalese in the Punjab.

1934 A. Huxley Beyond Mexique Bay 70 Ladino housewives stood bargaining at the stalls.

1959 Times 17 Jan. 7/7 The basic division in Chiapas is that between Indian and ladino, the ladino being a white or a mestizo, who follows the customs of the patrón and of western civilization.

1973 ‘F. Clifford’ Amigo, Amigo v. 46 She was dressed ladino style, blouse and skirt, and was lighter skinned than pure Indian.

1889 in Cent. Dict.

1932 C. Roth Hist. Marranos xiii. 324 A few works..were printed..in Ladino (or Spanish in Hebrew characters) in the Levant, at Smyrna or at Salonica.

1948 D. Diringer Alphabet ii. iv. 267 Judezmo or Judæo-Spanish, called also Ladino, contains many Hebrew words, but is principally based on Old Spanish or Castilian.

1949 Spectator 4 Nov. 595/2 A dialect of Hebrew-cum-Spanish called Ladino is still spoken by many Sephardic Jews everywhere; it is common at the Holland Park synagogue in London..whose members mostly come from the Middle East.

1959 Israel Digest 23 Jan. 6/3 Another important project..is the preparation of a Ladino dictionary.

1965 Listener 30 Sept. 490/2 He records a meeting with three Ladino-speaking Jews in the railway station in Sofia.

1972 O. Sela Bearer Plot xvi. 101 Ashraf and I are both Sephardic. We both speak Ladino which is very close to Spanish.

1924 A. G. Erith White Clover xii. 139 In Italy white clover is named Trifoglio ladino or Ladino clover.

1931 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. 42 83 In many ways the Italian Ladino type seems to be related to the large-leaved New Zealand Wild White No. 1... The New Zealand form is..altogether the more valuable pasture type.

1937 Cox & Jackson Crop Managem. & Soil Conservation xxiv. 385 Ladino is a large-growing type of white clover that provides much more pasture per acre and is of value for hay. Ladino is a native of northern Italy and is established in importance in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington and is gaining in importance in New England.

1950 W. E. Carroll & J. L. Krider Swine Production xviii. 367 Ladino clover hay contains 19 per cent protein.

1956 J. Gillespie & P. Hathaway Textbk. Gen. Agric. viii. 151 Ladino or Giant White Clover, also called Lodi, is Italian in origin and has all the appearance of a giant form of the other white clovers... Its demerit is that it is not frost-hardy and so cannot stand British winters.

1969 J. Janick et al. Plant Sci. xix. 381/1 White clover..includes the robust ladino variety from Italy.