inamorata

[ in-am-uh-rah-tuh, in-am- ]

/ ɪnˌæm əˈrɑ tə, ˌɪn æm- /

a woman who loves or is loved; female sweetheart or lover.

Origin of inamorata

1645–55; < Italian innamorata (feminine); see inamorato

Elsewhere, she tells her inamorata, “It does not matter if you elude my arms/my dear, when thought alone can imprison you.”

Sor Juana: Mexico’s Most Erotic Poet and Its Most Dangerous Nun |Katie Baker |November 8, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
The Cimmerian darkness which surrounded Van Twiller's inamorata left us free to indulge in the wildest conjectures.

Mademoiselle Olympe Zabriski |Thomas Bailey Aldrich
In a capital chorus he is told by Marullo and the others that they have abducted Rigoletto's inamorata.

The Complete Opera Book |Gustav Kobb
He even composed the billets-doux which the illiterate lover sent to his inamorata.

Bentley's Miscellany, Volume II |Various

Supposing this visitor happened to be what we call an ancienne, an old flame, an inamorata of mine.

The Monster |Edgar Saltus
The citizen and the officers glowered on each other, and sought in vain to monopolize the inamorata.

Tenting on the Plains |Elizabeth B. Custer

inamorata

/ (ɪnˌæməˈrɑːtə, ˌɪnæmə-) /

a woman with whom one is in love; a female lover

C17: see inamorato