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A visit from Cecily, accompanied by one of her inamoratas, riveted Harrison: The couple dressed alike in black, shared a single seat at the dinner table and ate from a single plate.

From New York Times • Oct. 17, 2018

Fernanda Rohd and Melody Hollis suggest opposite sides of the same essential coin as two very different inamoratas.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2016

I ask when he notes that many of his inamoratas have developed careers off the sheen of his celebrity.

From Forbes • Oct. 18, 2012

Yet there were no sightings of him arm in arm on a lonely night street, no public confessions by inamoratas, no telephone records or photos.

From Time Magazine Archive

They never inform us, like our inamoratas sometimes do, that we are not nearly so nice as we used to be.

From Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)