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Io pero' mi sono trattenuta, e ho comprato tra le altre cose un altro album di Pink (non ci posso fare niente, sono troppo innamorata di lei) e ho deciso che potevo permettermi di spendere due dollari per un gruppo (a me) sconosciuto, solo perche' mi piaceva il nome: Codeine.
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Io pero' mi sono trattenuta, e ho comprato tra le altre cose un altro album di Pink (non ci posso fare niente, sono troppo innamorata di lei) e ho deciso che potevo permettermi di spendere due dollari per un gruppo (a me) sconosciuto, solo perche' mi piaceva il nome: Codeine.
Archive 2009-02-01 Ra 2009
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Mods should work on a new vocabulary for their assignations or consult classical sources ‘innamorata’, etc. to find words that are both accurate and subtle.
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Interesting fact — the Powerblogs spellchecker handled the anglicized inamorata but not the Italian innamorata.
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Fernando arrived, springing up the steps after his innamorata, glittering with health and vitality.
Tour de Force Brand, Christianna, 1907- 1955
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But the lad, finding himself thus unexpectedly enriched, sought neither his living father nor the relics of his dead mother, but had recourse to an _innamorata_ of his own, and passed three or four months in her delicious company.
Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton Anonymous
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Hamlet had been impotent as regards his _innamorata_.
Shakspere and Montaigne Jacob Feis
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In his youth Jacob Dombey, jun., had been pampered and petted beyond measure, his every whim being carried out even at great expense; arrived at the age of twenty-one he became enamored of a young lady whose father kept a small toy-shop on Notre Dame street, and nothing would content him but a marriage with the "Goddess," as his innamorata was called.
The Mysteries of Montreal Being Recollections of a Female Physician Charlotte Fuhrer
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These serenades are, for the most part, given by a lover or friend to his _innamorata_, and the words are expressive of the tender passion; but there are also _serenate di gelosia_, or satirical serenades, when the most impertinent and stinging verses are sung.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 Various
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According to the custodian this lady was the painter's innamorata, and he set her in both places as a reward for her varying moods.
A Wanderer in Venice Harry [Illustrator] Morley 1903
mialuthien commented on the word innamorata
You sure you didn't mean inamorata instead?
A definition would be nice! :)
July 27, 2008
dontcry commented on the word innamorata
Love shack!
July 27, 2008
bilby commented on the word innamorata
Hahaha!
July 27, 2008
yarb commented on the word innamorata
Har!
July 27, 2008
bestiary commented on the word innamorata
dontcry, why, oh why! do you realize what you've done? what's going to be singing in my brain --i'm siiinging in the braaain, just siiinging in the braain~ *clicks heels*-- all night?
(innamorata and innamorato are the italian inamorata and inamorato are derived from, respectively.)
July 27, 2008
arby commented on the word innamorata
And let's go to the OED:
"female lover," 1651, from It. innamorata, fem. of innamorato, pp. of innamorare "to fall in love," from in "in" + amore "love."
ding ding ding - points to bestiary!
July 27, 2008
bestiary commented on the word innamorata
ooh! are there fabulous prizes?
--O(h)ED, i'm forcing myself to hold off on an online subscription until the fall, when i'm sure i'll be around to use it...the longing!
July 27, 2008
arby commented on the word innamorata
Not that OED, I was referring to the Online Etymology Dictionary.
But I used to have the real OED on CD-ROM. I bet it's online subs now.
PS: Yes, have a wallaby.
July 27, 2008
dontcry commented on the word innamorata
Sorry for the earworm, but if it helps, I've got it too....uh, oh....
The Love Shack is a little old place where
we can get together
Love Shack baby,
Love Shack bay-bee.
July 29, 2008
bestiary commented on the word innamorata
don't forget to bring
your
juke-
box
money~
hooray, wallabys! uh. wallabies? wallabees?
July 29, 2008