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Prima

noun

Used primarily as eating apples.

adjective

Indicating the most important performer or role. Synonyms: leading, star, starring, stellar. "Prima ballerina" , "Prima donna" , "A star figure skater" , "The starring role" , "A stellar role" , "A stellar performance"

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... discouraged and with a vague fear that she might have been a prima donna whose real name was Guggenslocker but whose stage name was something more euphonious. He instantly put away the thought and the fear. She was certainly not an opera singer—impossible! He drove back to his hotel, and made preparations for his return to Washington. Glancing casually over ...

— Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon

... head, but at the same moment another door near the orchestra admitted a small white butterfly figure, leading in a tall queenly apparition in black, whom she placed in a chair adjacent to the bejewelled prima donna of the night—a great contrast with her dust-coloured German hair and complexion, and good-natured ...

— Hopes and Fears - scenes from the life of a spinster • Charlotte M. Yonge

... song, and received marks for style, though her voice was poor in quality; and Elsie Bartlett scored for St. Elgiva's by reaching high B with the utmost clearness and ease. The Intermediates grinned at one another with satisfaction. Even Gladys Woodham, the acknowledged prima donna of St. Githa's, had never soared in public beyond A sharp. They felt that they had beaten the Seniors by half ...

— A Patriotic Schoolgirl • Angela Brazil

... prima Christi victima, Grex immolatorum tener, Aram ante ipsam, simplices, Palma ...

— Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. II • Francis Augustus Cox

... "A future prima donna," she retorted, "can't do always what she likes. If I go to bed too early I cannot sleep. To-night I am excited and nervous. There isn't anything likely to ...

— Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo • E. Phillips Oppenheim

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