inamorata

Example Sentences

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Consider what you will do if you decide to leave your partner and your inamorata doesn’t leave theirs.

From Slate • Oct. 28, 2019

“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

Along the road towards Essex, where I was walking, hoping to meet my inamorata, came a damsel walking, by her dress and bearing of gentle birth, and with a serving-maid by her side.

From House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court by Gull, Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger