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pa⋅pa⋅raz⋅zo
[pah-puh-raht-soh; It. pah-pah-raht-tsaw] 
–noun, plural -raz⋅zi [-raht-see; It. -raht-tsee] .
[-raht-see; It. -raht-tsee] . | a freelance photographer, esp. one who takes candid pictures of celebrities for publication. |
Origin:
1965–70; < It, from the surname of such a photographer in Federico Fellini's La dolce vita (1959), after the name of a hotelkeeper in George Gissing's By the Ionian Sea (1901), read by Fellini in It trans. at the time of the movie's producton
1965–70; < It, from the surname of such a photographer in Federico Fellini's La dolce vita (1959), after the name of a hotelkeeper in George Gissing's By the Ionian Sea (1901), read by Fellini in It trans. at the time of the movie's producton
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| pa·pa·raz·zo (pä'pə-rät'sō) n. pl. pa·pa·raz·zi (-sē) A freelance photographer who doggedly pursues celebrities to take candid pictures for sale to magazines and newspapers. [After Signor Paparazzo, a character in La Dolce Vita, a film by Federico Fellini.] |
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