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prima donna

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a prima donna
someone who demands to be treated in a special way and is very difficult to please. It was my job to take visiting authors out to dinner before they gave their talks and some of them were real prima donnas.

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Our young prima donna shall come in the evening, and sing to us.
Law and the Lady by Collins, Wilkie View in context
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.
Anne Of Green Gables by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
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.
The History of the Telephone by Casson, Herbert N. View in context
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