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Paparazzi

2 stages from Italian to English.

Today it means freelance photographers who aggressively pursue celebrities for candid photos
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Paparazzo
Italian · 1960
"a fictional photographer's name"
the surname of a tabloid photographer character in Fellini's film "La Dolce Vita"
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paparazzi
English · 1960s
"intrusive celebrity photographers"
adopted as the plural term for aggressive celebrity photographers
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