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English
Etymology
Perhaps confused with amorette, amoretto.[1]
Noun
inamoretta (plural inamorettas)
- Alternative form of inamorata
- 1720, Mrs. Manley (Mary de la Rivière), Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality of Both Sexes: From the New Atalantis, an Island in the Mediterranean ..., page 74:
- There are others of the Cabal, that lavish vast Sums upon their Inamoretta's, with the Empresment, Diligence and Warmth of a beginning Lover.
1815, Winter-evening amusements; being a collection of diverting tales, page 18:... but having wearied herself at a ball the night before, and uneasy with the tedious entertainment of her Inamoretta, sleep seized her unawares.
1947, Paul Vincent Carroll, Plays for Juvenile Performers:My beautiful inamoretta, she come in carriage from Pisa today, to marry me […]
2021, William F. Howe, Abraham H. Hummel, Danger! - A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations, Read Books Ltd, →ISBN:During the summer of 1866, while his wife was in the country, he brought his Baltimore inamoretta to New York, and established her in his splendid mansion ...
- (Can we date this quote?) Walter Scott, The Letters of Sir Walter Scott: 1823-1825:
- You are quite right about my unhallowed comparison between Lord Kilmarnock's inamoretta and Thurtell's
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