inamoretta

== English == === Etymology === Perhaps confused with amorette, amoretto. === Noun === inamoretta (plural inamorettas) 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. (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 ===