caro sposo

noun

A dear husband.

OriginItalian caro →
First used 18th c.
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Meanings

noun
  1. A dear husband.First known use 18th c.

    Yes, he's the last person breathing I should elect for my caro sposo ; the man's well enough as an acquaintance […]

    1786, Frederic Pilon, He Would Be a Soldier, I.3
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    A little upstart, vulgar being, with her Mr. E., and her cara^([sic]) sposo, and her resources, and all her airs of pert pretension and under-bred finery.

    1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter XIV, in Emma: […], volume II, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 274

    Indeed, when Katie flashes her upper thighs at her caro sposo, he regards them as one would a mystery piece of meat on a carvery buffet.

    2010 May 6, Hadley Freeman, The Guardian

Origin

  1. Italiancaro“dear”
  2. Englishcaro sposo

From Italian caro (“dear”) sposo (“husband”).

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