bravo – English noun declension

Noun: bravo

Singular	bravo
Plural	bravos; bravoes; bravi

As for Rochester, he had not genius enough to enter the lists with Dryden, so he fell upon another method of revenge; and meanly hired bravoes to assault him. [1753, Theophilus Cibber, The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753):]
Men have before hired bravos to transact their crimes, while their own person and reputation sat under shelter. [1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 117:]
"Why should I fight the King of England's bravoes?" inquired Acour in a languid voice of those who stood about him, a question at which they laughed. [1911, H. Rider Haggard, Red Eve:]
Because the headache will always be there, a weapon that never wears out and is as deadly as the bravo’s rapier or Lucrezia's poison vial. [1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin, published 2010, page 104:]
There was a roar of bravoes rang through the house; Pen bellowing with the loudest. [1907, Kate Dickinson Sweetser, Boys and girls from Thackeray:]

Borrowed from Italian bravo. Doublet of brave. See: Italian Nouns 'bravo'.

English noun forms of bravo