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- noun An admirer of
Italy or of itslanguage ,culture orpeople .
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Examples
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And if you happen to be an Italophile, like me, then you will also relish its authenticity.
Jay Weston: Buon Giorno MR C! Cipriani Comes to L.A., and I Have My Best Italian Meal in Years Jay Weston 2011
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And if you happen to be an Italophile, like me, then you will also relish its authenticity.
Jay Weston: Buon Giorno MR C! Cipriani Comes to L.A., and I Have My Best Italian Meal in Years Jay Weston 2011
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Philip, who has been a rather smug Italophile up until now returns home defeated and dazzled by cultural difference.
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On a recent flight to Rome, I found my sleep-deprived thoughts turning to the question that has launched a thousand doctoral dissertations: Why is Hannibal Lecter an Italophile?
Boing Boing 2009
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His unabashed Eurocentrism would gladden George Will's wizened heart, but he hasn't yet outed himself as a flaming Italophile.
Boing Boing 2009
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I was there as the representative of Crime Scraps, as Norman (Italophile supremo) could not attend and so very kindly passed on to me his invitation.
Nights on the town with Euro Crime Maxine 2008
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I was there as the representative of Crime Scraps, as Norman (Italophile supremo) could not attend and so very kindly passed on to me his invitation.
Nights on the town with Euro Crime Maxine 2008
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I was there as the representative of Crime Scraps, as Norman (Italophile supremo) could not attend and so very kindly passed on to me his invitation.
January 2008 Maxine 2008
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Seven years ago, when I at long last fell in love on what I consider to surely be a permanent basis, I not only had the pleasure of keeping regular company with the travel-loving, Italophile partner of my dreams, but her large, black, curl-laden dog as well.
Elissa Altman: Travel Unleashed: Learning Not to Sit and Stay 2008
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Ecco Italy if we consider the Italian part only – not the entire center with Spanish and French is an oasis for the Italophile or for anyone desiring to appreciate life a bit more through language and culture.
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