inamorata

Della scores with her screenwriter inamorata, Anita, at Anita’s retreat in Palm Springs.

From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2023

“Children of a Lesser God,” in which a teacher at a school for the deaf trains his inamorata to speak, made a brief return to Broadway, with a mixed-race cast.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 17, 2018

That would be the same crazed, cuckolded Cardenio whom Don Quixote met in Chapter 23 of the novel, then helped reunite with his inamorata a hundred pages later.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2016

An earlier example of such presidential kibitzing, the Times notes, involved David Petraeus, the former CIA director who shared classified information with his inamorata.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2015

Nevertheless, the wit of his inamorata rankled, and after dinner he went with Eben to the barn to "hitch up."

From Stories of the Foot-hills by Margaret Collier Graham

A visit from Cecily, accompanied by one of her inamoratas, riveted Harrison: The couple dressed alike in black, shared a single seat at the dinner table and ate from a single plate.

From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2018

Fernanda Rohd and Melody Hollis suggest opposite sides of the same essential coin as two very different inamoratas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2016

I ask when he notes that many of his inamoratas have developed careers off the sheen of his celebrity.

From Forbes ● Oct. 18, 2012

Yet there were no sightings of him arm in arm on a lonely night street, no public confessions by inamoratas, no telephone records or photos.

From Time Magazine Archive

They never inform us, like our inamoratas sometimes do, that we are not nearly so nice as we used to be.

From Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome