Definition of "signora" [‖Si•gno•ra]

• Used as a courtesy title for a married woman in an Italian-speaking area, equivalent to Mrs. (noun)

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• ""Well, signora, is it not true that now you have had enough of me?""
• ""But it will be in English, signora; and that I can not read.""
• "In fact, the signora was a sort of lion, and though there was no drop of the"