obs. forms of INAMORATO, INAMORATA.
1756. Connoisseur, cxxiv. 21. I have lately taken a survey of the numerous tribe of Enamoratos.
c. 1763. Babler (1767), I. 164, No. 39. Various were the tricks related of this unhappy enamorato.
1772–84. Cook, Voy. (1790), IV. 1317. Thinking it would be a bad precedent, and an encouragement to other enamouratoes.
1812. R. H., in Examiner, 24 May, 327/2. The kissing of a girl by two enamoratoes.
1841. Catlin, N. Amer. Ind. (1844), II. lv. 198. One of his little fair enamoratas, or ‘catch crumbs,’ such as live in the halo of all great men.
