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What's a Tintamarro?
I like Mark Twain's comments about translation, as shown in GrannyGrump's signature, and am trying to provide translations while working on The Young Cosima by Henry Handel Richardson.

In the text there is

'As for what my Tintamarro says, and so wisely...'

In the story two lovers are talking in French, and it seems that the speaker is teasing the other person.

I've no idea what Tintamarro means, and all my googling around and checking dictionaries etc hasn't helped. Can anyone point me to a translation please?
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