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‖ sposo Now rare.|ˈsposo| [It.] A husband. Also as caro sposo |ˈcaro|, ‘dear husband’. Cf. sposa.
1778F. Burney Diary Aug. (1940) i. 12 Hetty, who, with her sposo, was here to receive us. 1792― Let. 2 Oct. (1972) I. 229 Her caro sposo has continued very tolerably well. 1816Jane Austen Emma III. vi. 88 The thing would be for us all to come on donkies, Jane, Miss Bates, and me—and my caro sposo walking by. 1858Trollope Three Clerks III. xviii. 328 The gentleman who has the honour of being her intended sposo. 1887Athenæum 21 May 670/2 Italian girlhood..has two sole points of interest, the sposo and the fashion plate. 1976Times Lit. Suppl. 30 Jan. 103/1 Nor was her husband..a mere caro sposo: their devotion was total. |