Meaning of amatrice | Babel Free

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A female amateur.

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“An amatrice, who practised in the fine arts, flourished at Venice at the date⟳ of 1780.”

“Madame du Châtelet also wrote on physics, but at best she was only an amatrice in science.”

“Also the number⟳ of infections with seamen is nowadays not as it was before—90% due to the prostitutes. The ratio now is about 50/50 between the prostitutes and the “amatrice.” If in earlier days the seaman suffered much from the offer⟳ of female-amatrices in a few ports only of Eastern Europe, we now see⟳ that in quite a large part of the free world, free sexual intercourse has so much increased that the seaman really is not any more committed to prostitutes but indeed has a lot of trouble⟳ to keep⟳ free from the amatrices in the streets and in the neighborhood of the seaman’s homes.[…]One might well say⟳, that we have⟳ too much been obsessed by the problem of the prostitute and that the real attention should stay⟳ fixed upon the promiscuity of man as well as of woman, prostitutes and amatrices, as promiscuity is the determining factor for demand⟳ as well as for supply⟳.”

“I may not be a nocturne or a masterpiece of nightwork, / but I’m no oily composition, no corroded / weathercock in the hay, / no ancient lamb dressed ewe fashion / (nor yet a death’s head on a mopstick, thank⟳ you). / I do not affect⟳ the Bouguereau quality. / Neither am I an amatrice of naughtiness / —Gay Dashaleigh, Frank Merriwell, Jack Harkaway, Bunny Stutz Bearcat, Bunny / —Your own⟳ hare? Or a wig, Madame?—”

“A new branch of this discussion expressed moral concern⟳ for what (from the 1920s to the 1950s) was called the ‘amatrice’ (female amateur): / The appearance on the scene of the amatrice as a dramatis persona … is connected to the appearance of a premarital female sexuality that could no longer as a matter⟳ of course be localised only within the lower classes nor be lumped automatically under the heading of prostitution. (Mooij, 1993: 136)”

“Mrs. North, Press⟳ Correspondent, gave her a large leather hand bag and Mrs. Maxwell, on behalf of the four Corps of Utah, presented her with a brooch made in Salt Lake from Utah gold and set⟳ with an amatrice setting, a newly discovered mine, and is very valuable.”

“No. 3076—Solid gold. Genuine Utah amatrice setting.”

“The volcanic episode begins with the deposition of the Puripicar ignimbrite, a name⟳ given by Guest (1969) to a series of welded light⟳ gray or pink dacitic tuffs with a high content of phenocrysts, among which big crystals of biotite of up to 3 mm and an amatrice-type pink quartz are remarkable.”

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