amoretto
Americannoun
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amoretti
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of amoretto
1590–1600; < Italian, equivalent to amor ( e ) love (< Latin amōrem, accusative of amor ) + -etto -et; cf. amour
Example Sentences
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In 1594 he had been married to the lady celebrated in his somewhat artificial amoretti.
From Among My Books Second Series by James Russell Lowell
The most charming amoretti are disporting in all directions, flinging themselves from on high in delicious abandon, alternating with lovely groups of the cardinal virtues.
From The Venetian School of Painting by Evelyn March Phillipps
The classical amoretti, of which many versions in bronze existed, were also frequently copied.
From Donatello, by Lord Balcarres by David Lindsay, Earl of Crawford
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