inamoretta

English

Etymology

Perhaps confused with amorette, amoretto.[1]

Noun

inamoretta (plural inamorettas)

  1. Alternative form of inamorata
    • 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:
      There are others of the Cabal, that lavish vast Sums upon their Inamoretta's, with the Empresment, Diligence and Warmth of a beginning Lover.
    • 1815, Winter-evening amusements; being a collection of diverting tales, page 18:
      ... but having wearied herself at a ball the night before, and uneasy with the tedious entertainment of her Inamoretta, sleep seized her unawares.
    • 1947, Paul Vincent Carroll, Plays for Juvenile Performers:
      My beautiful inamoretta, she come in carriage from Pisa today, to marry me […]
    • 2021, William F. Howe, Abraham H. Hummel, Danger! - A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations, Read Books Ltd, →ISBN:
      During 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 ...
    • (Can we date this quote?) Walter Scott, The Letters of Sir Walter Scott: 1823-1825:
      You are quite right about my unhallowed comparison between Lord Kilmarnock's inamoretta and Thurtell's […]

References
  1. John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “†inamoˈretta”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
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