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paparazzo (n.)
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paparazzi (n.)
1961, from Italian Paparazzo (plural paparazzi) surname of the freelance photographer in Federico Fellini's 1959 film "La Dolce Vita." The surname itself is of no special significance in the film; it is said to be a common one in Calabria, and Fellini is said to have borrowed it from a travel book, "By the Ionian Sea," in which occurs the name of hotel owner Coriolano Paparazzo.
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paparazzo (n.)
a freelance photographer who pursues celebrities trying to take candid photographs of them to sell to newspapers or magazines;
