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‖ sposa Now rare.|ˈsposa|
[It.]
A wife; a bride. Also as cara sposa |ˈcara|, ‘dear wife’; a devoted female companion. Cf. sposo.
1624J. Chamberlain Let. 4 Dec. (1939) II. 589 Tom Cary a privado of the Princes bedchamber was dispatcht..into Fraunce with a love letter and some rich and rare jewell to the Sposa. 1781N. Mundy Let. 15 Oct. in A. E. Newdigate-Newdegate Cheverels (1898) iii. 48 Adieu my dear Sr Roger, may you and yr Cara Sposa meet in health & spirits. 1793W. B. Stevens Jrnl. 13 Mar. (1965) i. 72 His Wife..handsome enough for a Cara Sposa. 1797E. Wynne Jrnl. 22 Jan. in A. Fremantle Wynne Diaries (1952) xx. 265 The sposa received so many fine compliments of congratulation that she was quite at a loss. 1821Shelley Let. 22 Oct. (1964) II. 363 La Guiccioli his [sc. Byron's] cara sposa who attends him impatiently. |