inamorato
Americannoun
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inamoratos
plural
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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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
"Now Heaven nourish thy judgment, gentle youth," said Crevecoeur, still laughing at the chivalrous inamorato.
From Quentin Durward by Sir Walter Scott
He is one of my inamoratos, Sir; They call him Mounsir Device.
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
While this taste, therefore, is so naturally prevalent, I doubt, to propose remedies for it were but giving laws to the winds, or advice to inamoratos.
From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3 by S. C. (Stephen Cullen) Carpenter
I see, my doctrine moves no precise ears, But such as are profess'd inamoratos.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 by Various
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