prima donna
noun
a first or principal female singer of an opera company.
prime donne
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pluralof prima donna.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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I cannot embrace stout prime donne very well, because I am so fat myself!'
From Time Magazine Archive
All the other prime donne are threatening to resign!
From Memoirs of an American Prima Donna by Clara Louise Kellogg
It was said that I would always have emotional limitations because I had no love affairs like other prime donne.
From Memoirs of an American Prima Donna by Clara Louise Kellogg
I was glad to see her again even though we were prime donne of rival opera organisations.
From Memoirs of an American Prima Donna by Clara Louise Kellogg
He found rather a medley of worn school-books—old-fashioned geographies and histories and foreign conversation grammars; of mouldy novels, many in French and Italian; of illustrated lives of actresses, prime donne, and celebrated courtezans.
From Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real by Louis Zangwill
