signora

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noun

Mrs; madam; title of address or respect for women in Italy.

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Meanings

nounsignora (plural signoras)

plural signoras

  1. Mrs; madam; title of address or respect for women in Italy.

    I waited, half thinking that they would walk toward me on the waters, until the spell was broken by a knock upon my door. "Would the signoras of their good pleasure like to behold the dance of the tarantella?"

    1896, Louise Chandler Moulton, Lazy tours in Spain and elsewhere
  2. An Italian woman.

Origin

  1. Italiansignora
  2. Italiansignora
  3. Englishsignora

Borrowed from Italian signora.

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