Meanings
plural inamorettas
- alternativeAlternative form of inamorata.
My beautiful inamoretta, she come in carriage from Pisa today, to marry me […]
1947, Paul Vincent Carroll, Plays for Juvenile Performers4 more examples
There are others of the Cabal, that lavish vast Sums upon their Inamoretta's, with the Empresment, Diligence and Warmth of a beginning Lover.
1720, Mrs. Manley (Mary de la Rivière), Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality of Both Sexes: From the New Atalantis, an Island in the Mediterranean ..., page 74... but having wearied herself at a ball the night before, and uneasy with the tedious entertainment of her Inamoretta, sleep seized her unawares.
1815, Winter-evening amusements; being a collection of diverting tales, page 18During the summer of 1866, while his wife was in the country, he brought his Baltimore inamoretta to New York, and established her in his splendid mansion ...
2021, William F. Howe, Abraham H. Hummel, Danger! - A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations, Read Books Ltd, →ISBNYou are quite right about my unhallowed comparison between Lord Kilmarnock's inamoretta and Thurtell's […]
Walter Scott, The Letters of Sir Walter Scott: 1823-1825
Origin
Perhaps confused with amorette, amoretto.
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