innamorata

plural innamoratas

1. alternativeAlternative form of inamorata.

   His anxiety respecting his innamorata at last induced him to risk the voyage.

   1851, Eliot Warburton, editor, Memoirs of Horace Walpole and His Contemporaries; Including Numerous Original Letters Chiefly from Strawberry Hill, volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], page 325

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   A Watteau-like representation of a pleasing French scene; the pet of the petticoats of Montreuil taking leave of his innamoratas.

   1844 June 1, The Literary Gazette and Journal of the Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c., number 1428, London, page 354, column 3

   In Mendoza, San Luis, Santiago, Buenos Ayres, and all other cities in the provinces of Rio de la Plata, in Chili, and in Peru, whenever a young dandy, calling upon his innamorata, is informed that she is “en casa,” that is at home, he dismounts, extracts from his waistcoat pocket a beautiful pair of slight hobbles (weighing only two ounces), which by two silver buttons he affixes to the fetlocks of his high-bred horse, who, swishing with his long tail the innumerable flies that assail him, and looking at every animal that canters by him, stands stock still, until within the house all the compliments of the season have been paid, and all the songs to the guitar exhausted.

   1860, Francis B[ond] Head, “How to Hobble and Anchor Horses”, in The Horse and His Rider, London: John Murray, […], page 212

   But most famous of all his innamoratas was Gabrielle d’Estrées, afterwards Duchesse de Beaufort, whom her lover has immortalised in the song commencing “Charmante Gabrielle.”

   1875 August, “The Days of Henri Quatre”, in Temple Bar, volume XLIV, page 462

   […] in fact, they provoked such universal admiration, that I should advise any young brother sportsman, who possesses an ardent attachment for a lady fair, in whose superlative graces he wishes to bask and breathe out existence, not to forget to provide himself with an abundant supply of these lovely skins as gifts for his innamorata, for failure after such a donation must be his fault, and his only.

   1886, Parker Gillmore, “A Mutinous Scoundrel”, in The Hunter’s Arcadia, London: Chapman and Hall, Limited, page 221

   His innamoratas were the freckled beauties who milked cows and hoed potatoes; but his passionate imagination attired them with the most wonderful graces.

   1887 [1865], Alexander Smith, “Biographical Preface”, in The Poetical Works of Robert Burns, New York, N.Y.: Frederick A[bbott] Stokes, […], page xi