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- Italian and Italian American gangsters and mafioso often refer to their mistress as a comare (Italian for "godmother"), often Americanized to goomah, goomar, or gomatta.
- moll - common term for whore or prostitute, and also the nickname of a 17th century criminal Moll Cutpurse
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