incognita

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noun

A woman who is unknown or in disguise.

OriginItalian incognita →
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Meanings

nounincognita (plural incognitas)

plural incognitas

  1. A woman who is unknown or in disguise.
  2. The state of being in disguise.
adjectiveincognita (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOf a woman: without being known; in an assumed character, or under an assumed title; in disguise; feminine of incognito.

    Of all places, London is the best for an incognita acquaintance; cards may be exchanged to all eternity without a meeting, and the various circles revolve like planets in their different systems, utterly unconscious of the means and modes of each other's existence.

    1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 120

Origin

  1. Italianincognita
  2. Englishincognita

Borrowed from Italian incognita; see incognito.

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