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‖ virtuosa Now rare.|vɜːtjuːˈəʊsə|
[It., fem. of virtuoso virtuoso.]
A female virtuoso.
1668Shadwell Sullen Lovers ii, D'ye think, I that am a Virtuosa understand no better, then to leave you now you are not well? 1675T. Plume Life of Hacket (1865) 20 Pope Gregory XV. had canonised Ignatius Loyola..and Madam Teresia, a Spanish Virtuosa. 1754Chesterfield in World No. 98 ⁋8 Consequently those respectable titles of virtuoso and virtuosa have not the least relation to the moral characters of the parties. 1796Burney Mem. Metastasio II. 161 This virtuosa, being unemployed, will doubtless have offers from other quarters. 1826Margravine of Anspach Mem. I. viii. 310 The Virtuosa the other day had sung a Hebrew air, which began at the end. 1847J. Leitch tr. C. O. Müller's Anc. Art §425. 505 A musical virtuosa playing at the same time on a standing and lying stringed instrument. |