inamoretta

inamoretta

English

Noun

inamoretta (plural inamorettas)

1. 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 […]