signorino
Americannoun
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signorinos,
plural
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signorini
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of signorino
1325–75; < Italian; diminutive of signore signore 1 ( def. ); see -ine 1
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But his eye falling on the white carnation which Giovanna, knowing her signorino was going in serata, had provided for his buttonhole, lines less grey came to his lips: “Neque tu choreas....”
From Aurora the Magnificent by Gertrude Hall Brownell
Santa Vergine, aiutatemi!” he decided to go and find the signorino himself.
From Olive in Italy by Moray Dalton
Much better spare your soldi now, signorino, and buy something at the auction.
From The Call of the Blood by Orson Lowell
And now, signorino," Gaspare concluded, "they are all laughing at him in Marechiaro.
From The Call of the Blood by Orson Lowell
"I am content without anything, signorino," she said.
From The Call of the Blood by Orson Lowell
I would like the sweet signorini to buy nice dresses, like those they themselves wear, for my little girl, and to teach her the good manners she could not gain as the brigand's daughter.
From Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
"Make the signorini stay in to-day," warned the colonel.
From Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
"I will meet you again, signorini," he added.
From Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
I am despairing, signore," said he, in English sufficiently strangulated to be amusing but nevertheless quite comprehensible, "that you and the sweet signorini are to see our lovely Naples under tribulations so very great.
From Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
"Ah, si, signorini mia," he answered, cheerfully, "il poco signore passato da stamattini."
From Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
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