La Signora (pronounced as /it/;) is a character in commedia dell'arte. She is the wife of Pantalone and the mistress of Pedrolino. She is tough, beautiful and calculating, and wears very wide dresses along with very heavy makeup. She walks with a flick of the toe and her arms held far out to the sides of her body.
Italian: La Signora|italic=no could be a "courtesan" (high class prostitute), but typically manages to wrangle her way into the household of an old man, usually Pantalone, where she would inevitably cuckold him. She was an older, sexually experienced Colombina, known as Rosaura.
A common lazzo of Italian: La Signora|italic=no is to have a fight with another woman, as she is very proud and often ridicules others.
Representations of or characters based on Italian: La Signora|italic=no in contemporary popular culture include Signora from Genshin Impact (where she is the Eighth of the Eleven Fatui Harbingers), and Italian: La Signora|italic=no from the comic book series Power Man and Iron Fist, where she is a minor villain, part of the commedia della morte.