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principessa

principessa noun: an Italian princess.

Noun

principessa (plural principessas)

  1. An Italian princess.
    • The sins against propriety in manners are as frequent and as glaring. I do not speak of the hoyden vivacity, harlot tenderness, and dancing-school affability, with which vulgar novel-writers always deck out their countesses and principessas, chevaliers, dukes, and marquisses; […]1821, Letters to Richard Heber, Esq. Containing Critical Remarks on the Series of Novels Beginning with “Waverley,” and an Attempt to Ascertain Their Author., London: […] Rodwell and Martin, […]...
    • The Principessas, and they are all Principessas here, have fourteen or fifteen children a-piece; […]1843, John Heneage Jesse, George Selwyn and His Contemporaries; with Memoirs and Notes, volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], page 372

Examples of principessa in a sentence

  • Planish had ever tasted, the Principessa Ca’ D’Oro, a real princess though she just happened to have been born a Miss Togg of Arkansas.1943, Sinclair Lewis, Gideon Planish, New York, N.Y.: Random House, pages 231–232:
  • Professor Hartt recalled that, at one of what Berenson liked to call his Sunday afternoon “tea fights,” he was surrounded by contessas, baronessas, and principessas in true Don Giovanni style.1979, Meryle Secrest, Being Bernard Berenson: A Biography, New York, N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →ISBN, page 391:
  • Inside, Italian principessas rubbed shoulders with Seventh Avenue princes.1997, Sandra Marton, Until You, Pinnacle Books, →ISBN, page 88:
  • Italian principessas were always there with publishers, playboys, and princes some of the habitués of the club mingling with starlets and socialites.2009, Deedee Panesar, In Gold We Trust: The True Story of the Papalia Twins and Their Battle for Truth and Justice, Trafford Publishing...

Forms of principessa

pluralprincipessas

Origin of principessa

Borrowed from Italian principessa.

Questions about principessa

What does principessa mean?
Principessa means an Italian princess.
How do you use principessa in a sentence?
Planish had ever tasted, the Principessa Ca’ D’Oro, a real princess though she just happened to have been born a Miss Togg of Arkansas.
What part of speech is principessa?
Principessa is a noun.
What is the plural of principessa?
The plural of principessa is principessas.

Words near principessa in the dictionary

  1. Principatos
  2. principe
  3. Principean
  4. Principense
  5. principes
  6. principessa
  7. principessas
  8. principi
  9. principia
  10. principial
  11. principiant

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