Definition of "dulcinea" []

• A mistress; a sweetheart. (noun)

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• "When the dance, which was generally a long waltz, was over, he seated his partner, and then went to a little counter at the end of the room and bought his dulcinea a plate of the candies and sweetmeats provided."
• "They have a new dulcinea wherever they newly quarter, and carry about the few ideas they possess from damsel to damsel, as regularly as from town to town. '"
• "I should do with this languishing dulcinea, should I deliver her from thraldom?"