caro sposo

caro sposo

English

Etymology

From Italian caro (“dear”) sposo (“husband”).

Noun

caro sposo

1. A dear husband. [from 18th c.]
   • 1786, Frederic Pilon, He Would Be a Soldier, I.3:

     Yes, he's the last person breathing I should elect for my caro sposo ; the man's well enough as an acquaintance […]

   • 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume II, chapter 14:

     ‘A little upstart, vulgar being, with her Mr. E. and her caro sposo, and her resources, and all her airs of pert pretension and underbred finery.’

   • 2010, Hadley Freeman, The Guardian, 6 May:

     Indeed, when Katie flashes her upper thighs at her caro sposo, he regards them as one would a mystery piece of meat on a carvery buffet.