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camerino

dressing room

noun kah-meh-REE-noh Rare
Arts & Culture Performance

Origin: Italian camera (room) + diminutive -ino

Also means

small room

Usage Note

Camerino is a diminutive of camera (room) and refers specifically to a performer's backstage dressing room in a theatre or studio. It can also mean a small cabin on a ship or a changing cubicle. In the theatre world the phrase andare nel camerino (to go to the dressing room) is standard. Plural camerini.

Examples

"L'attrice si preparava nel suo camerino."

Natural Translation

The actress was getting ready in her dressing room.

Literal Translation

The actress herself-prepared in-the her dressing-room.

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