inamorato
Americannoun
noun
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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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Scott Keiji Takeda, who plays Ta, Mei-Li’s reluctant inamorato, has a sumptuous voice that captures the hues of Richard Rodgers’ music.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026
In 1976, the 37-year-old Germaine Greer, globally famous as the author of The Female Eunuch, wrote a 30,000-word love letter to her 26-year-old inamorato, Martin Amis.
From Slate • Nov. 19, 2015
Meanwhile, her toff inamorato takes to the boards.
From The Guardian • Mar. 3, 2013
The mysteries surrounding his relationship with Ann Coleman resemble the bleak and brooding elements of an Edgar Allen Poe story, with Buchanan cast in the role of a bereft and inconsolable inamorato.
From Salon • Feb. 21, 2011
She was incessantly importuned, now by her father, and now by her inamorato.
From Damon and Delia A Tale by Godwin, William
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