Usually means: Boastful, braggart character in Commedia dell'Arte.
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  1. capitano: Merriam-Webster
  2. capitano: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. capitano: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Capitano, capitano: Wordnik
  5. capitano: Wiktionary
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  7. capitano: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Capitano)

noun:  A head man.
noun:  One of the four stock characters of commedia dell'arte who typically appropriated the name "captain" for himself but was not one; he was often a blowhard and a swaggerer who could maintain his self-important claims only if none of the locals knew him.
noun:  A surname from Italian.

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