signorina
IPA: sinjˈɔrˈinʌ
noun
- A courtesy title for an unmarried woman of Italian origin.
- (US) maitake, hen of the woods (mushroom)
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Examples of "signorina" in Sentences
- “Your sense of humor, signorina, it is…affascinare.”
- English; the language of love, signorina, is universal.
- “Buon giorno, signorina,” he said as though she came there every day.
- "The signorina is going to move out of the palace in half an hour," said the servant.
- This lovely signorina was kind enough to accompany a lonely old man for an aperitif, Lucci went on.
- Italian has a wonderful word for the sway of a drunken sailor (or hat-selling signorina): barcollare -- to move back and forth like a boat.
- “Not like the old days, signorina,” said Benito, referring to the protestors and media circus that once surrounded her arrivals at the Vatican.
- In fact the Vessillo proudly reported all the university honors obtained by Jewish women, as in the case of Ernestina Paper, the first “signorina” to obtain a university degree in Italy, graduating from the faculty of medicine in Florence in 1877.
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