inamorato
Americannoun
plural
inamoratosnoun
Etymology
Origin of inamorato
1585–95; < Italian innamorato, masculine past participle of innamorare to inflame with love. See enamor
Example Sentences
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She deserves a better musical, as does Renard as her astonished interplanetary inamorato.
From Los Angeles Times
You, my Albert, on me now like a daybreak inamorato, so unfamiliar I can only just remember your formal name.
From The New Yorker
We’re looking for a best friend, an accomplice, as well as an inamorato.
From The Guardian
Meanwhile, her toff inamorato takes to the boards.
From The Guardian
Though conscious that they were wishing her at least in Alabama, she felt much sympathy for the lovers, as she had a favoured inamorato of her own, who was now on his return from Canton.
From Project Gutenberg
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