innamorata

innamorata (plural innamoratas)

1. Alternative form of inamorata.
   • 1844 June 1, The Literary Gazette and Journal of the Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c., number 1428, London, page 354, column 3:

     A Watteau-like representation of a pleasing French scene; the pet of the petticoats of Montreuil taking leave of his innamoratas.

   • 1851, Eliot Warburton, editor, Memoirs of Horace Walpole and His Contemporaries; Including Numerous Original Letters Chiefly from Strawberry Hill, volume II, London: Henry Colburn, , page 325:

     His anxiety respecting his innamorata at last induced him to risk the voyage.

   • 1860, Francis B[ond] Head, “How to Hobble and Anchor Horses”, in The Horse and His Rider, London: John Murray, , page 212:

     In Mendoza, San Luis, Santiago, Buenos Ayres, and all other cities in the provinces of Rio de la Plata, in Chili, and in Peru, whenever a young dandy, calling upon his innamorata, is informed that she is “en casa,” that is at home, he dismounts, extracts from his waistcoat pocket a beautiful pair of slight hobbles (weighing only two ounces), which by two silver buttons he affixes to the fetlocks of his high-bred horse, who, swishing with his long tail the innumerable flies that assail him, and looking at every animal that canters by him, stands stock still, until within the house all the compliments of the season have been paid, and all the songs to the guitar exhausted.

   • 1875 August, “The Days of Henri Quatre”, in Temple Bar, volume XLIV, page 462:

     But most famous of all his innamoratas was Gabrielle d’Estrées, afterwards Duchesse de Beaufort, whom her lover has immortalised in the song commencing “Charmante Gabrielle.”

   • 1886, Parker Gillmore, “A Mutinous Scoundrel”, in The Hunter’s Arcadia, London: Chapman and Hall, Limited, page 221:

     […] in fact, they provoked such universal admiration, that I should advise any young brother sportsman, who possesses an ardent attachment for a lady fair, in whose superlative graces he wishes to bask and breathe out existence, not to forget to provide himself with an abundant supply of these lovely skins as gifts for his innamorata, for failure after such a donation must be his fault, and his only.

   • 1887 [1865], Alexander Smith, “Biographical Preface”, in The Poetical Works of Robert Burns, New York, N.Y.: Frederick A Stokes, , page xi:

     His innamoratas were the freckled beauties who milked cows and hoed potatoes; but his passionate imagination attired them with the most wonderful graces.

     Changed from inamoratas.

   • 1899, E[llen] M[ary] Clerke, “Lyrics of Boiardo”, in Fable and Song in Italy, London: Grant Richards, page 152:

     But in the best of these pieces, in which the author expresses his love for nature at least as strongly as his passion for his innamorata, he rises to a level sufficiently high to entitle him to rank with the great lyrists of his time.

   • 1919, R E Boyns, “Matrimonial Ethics”, in A Grass Widow, San Francisco, Calif.: Harr Wagner Publishing Company, page 54:

     What was thought about Harry Waters and his innamorata is of no moment, for amongst the wiseacres of San Justo there was no prophet or the son of a prophet.

   • 1970, Scott Elledge, Donald Schier, editors, The Continental Model: Selected French Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, in English Translation, Ithaca, N.Y., London: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 388:

     Pierre de Ronsard (1524–1585) was indeed sometimes pedantic especially in his early Odes, but he is a great lyric poet in, for example, the sonnets addressed to his innamoratas, Cassandre Salviati and Hélène de Surgères.

   • 1998, Angelica Forti-Lewis, “Commedia dell’ Arte”, in Vicki K. Janik, editor, Fools and Jesters in Literature, Art, and History: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook, Westport, Conn., London: Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 151:

     The innamorata, whose purity is as absolute as it is unassailable and whose love is genteelly, albeit possessively, bestowed upon her innamorato, always desperately needs Colombina’s and Arlecchino’s help, together with her beloved, in order to oppose Pantalone’s and/or Dottore’s plans.

   • 1998, Marcia Landy, “Comedy, Melodrama, and Theatricality”, in The Folklore of Consensus: Theatricality in the Italian Cinema, 1930–1943, Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 64:

     His innamorata is busy with an accomplice planning a jewel robbery that will involve him, since they will plant the stolen goods on him.

innamorata f

1. feminine singular of innamorato

innamorata f (plural innamorate, masculine innamorato)

1. lover, girlfriend, sweetheart

• amarantino, maratonina