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Definition of Signorine
1. signorina [n] - See also: signorina
Lexicographical Neighbors of Signorine
Literary usage of Signorine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Original Plays by William Schwenck Gilbert (1908)
"Giu. and Mar, Buon' giorno, signorine! Girls. Gondolieri carissimi! Siamo contadine!
... signorine! (Curtseying to Giu. and MAR.) Cavalieri. Giu. and Mar. ..."
2. An Italian Conversation Grammar: Comprising the Most Important Rules of by Napoleone Perini (1884)
"But in speaking or writing about persons, Mr., Sir, &c., are translated by " il
Signore," " i Signori," " la Signora," " la Signorina," " le signorine," ..."
3. The Savoy Opera and the Savoyards by Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald (1899)
"signorine ! GIELS (deprecatingly). Contadine ! (curtseying to Giu. and MAE.)
Cavalieri. Giu. and MAE. (deprecatingly). Gondolier!! Poveri gondolieri! ..."
4. The Savoy Opera and the Savoyards by Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald (1894)
"signorine ! GIRLS (deprecatingly). Contadine ! ... Buon' giorno, signorine, &c.
DUET—MARCO and GIUSEPPE We're called gondolieri, But that's a vagary, ..."
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