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prima donna

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prima donna

Strictly, the singer of the principal female role in an opera.

By the 19th century the term had entered nonmusical vocabulary to describe an arrogant and histrionic person, either male or female.



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Our young prima donna shall come in the evening, and sing to us.
Thursday the girls had a drive in the park, and in the evening Miss Barry took them to a concert in the Academy of Music, where a noted prima donna was to sing.
Later he met a prima donna, fell in love with and married her, forsook telephony for ballooning, and lost his life in attempting to fly across the English Channel.
 
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