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Signorina

noun
(pl. signorine, signorinas)
1.
An Italian courtesy title for an unmarried woman; equivalent to 'Miss', it is either used alone or before a name.
2.
An Italian title or form of address for an unmarried woman.






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"Signorina" Quotes from Famous Books



... Felice. The tall, angry-looking gentleman, with bulging, black eyes and wrinkled cheeks, was Signor Carata, the avvocato; and the lady in black and a yellow shawl was his wife, who was the daughter of the syndic. Close by was Signorina Maria Sacchetti, the beauty of San Felice, already more than plump, but with a good complexion, and hair so thick that it stood out from her satisfied face as if it were trained over a trellis. She wore white, and long, thread gloves which went above her elbows. Maddalena regarded her with awe ...
— The Call of the Blood • Robert Smythe Hichens

... filled it-now chatting gaily with this lady, now with that, but all the while striving to detect through the many disguises of dresses and masks, the one form that was to him all in all-the queen of his heart and his love, Signorina Florinda. He was himself unmasked, and wore a rich Grecian head-dress, a tunic of dark velvet, trimmed with rich ermine, and clasped close about the throat with checks of gold. His silken hose, and velvet ...
— The Duke's Prize - A Story of Art and Heart in Florence • Maturin Murray

... idea. The practice of recklessly heaving immense solid bouquets, of the general size and weight of prize cabbages, from the dizzy altitude of the galleries, is dangerous and very reprehensible. Now, night before last, at the Academy of Music, just after Signorina had finished that exquisite melody, "The Last Rose of Summer," one of these floral pile-drivers came cleaving down through the atmosphere of applause, and if she hadn't deployed suddenly to the right, it would have driven her into ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain



Words linked to "Signorina" :   Italian, title of respect, form of address, unmarried woman, title



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