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  • noun Plural form of signora.

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Examples

  • Two old sailors, each minus an arm, were singing patriotic songs and the signors, signoras and signoritas who listened to them at the doors and balconies, seemed thrilled with delight, at the musical recital of the grand victories of old Spain.

    Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886 Various

  • Should your "dancing days be over," which is scarcely probable, considering how greatly it is now the fashion for "potent, grave, and reverend signors," and signoras also, to join the gay quadrille, &c.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 494, June 18, 1831 Various

  • In the streets presents of great value were tossed from the carriages to the signoras on the balconies.

    Ranching, Sport and Travel Thomas Carson

  • "Look round the hall, signoras, and see if any of you can pick him out from the rest of us."

    A Knight of the White Cross : a tale of the siege of Rhodes 1867

  • Ah, then, if these rooms do not suit the signor and signoras, there are others; and we were whisked off to apartments yet grander, great suites with high, canopied beds, mirrors, and furniture that was luxurious a hundred years ago.

    The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • Ah, then, if these rooms do not suit the signor and signoras, there are others; and we were whisked off to apartments yet grander, great suites with high, canopied beds, mirrors, and furniture that was luxurious

    Saunterings Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • The signoras and signorinas fell upon them and gormandized; but the signors eyed them with reasonable suspicion.

    The Cloister and the Hearth Charles Reade 1849

  • The patrician ladies carried candles about the city that night as our signoras do now.

    The Cloister and the Hearth Charles Reade 1849

  • I sought my ideal of a woman amongst English ladies, French countesses, Italian signoras, and German grafinnen.

    Jane Eyre: an autobiography, Vol. II. 1848

  • She could not resist the woman's triumph over those arrogant signoras who now cringed in homage where they had once slighted with disdain.

    Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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