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 • Feb. 15, 2023
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
However, if a new inamorato fills her thoughts, it is idle for me to yelp.
From The Red Redmaynes by Phillpotts, Eden
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