Meaning of Emma | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A female given name from the Germanic languages.
2. M in RAF phonetic alphabet
   British, World-War-I, dated

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“Both Saxon and Norman chroniclers unite⟳ in representing the youthful Queen Emma as in a peculiar degree gifted with elegance and beauty; so that many flattering epithets had been bestowed on her - as "the Pearl," "the Flower," or "the Fair Maid" of Normandy.”

“Emma Calvé...since Madame Bovary the name⟳ Emma suggests a solid bourgeois foundation, a country family...Emma Eames, a chilly name⟳...a wind from the East.”

“The cottage now belonged to Emma's mother Beatrix, who was a tutor in English literature at a women's college, specialising in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel. This may have⟳ accounted for Emma's Christian name⟳, for it had seemed to Beatrix unfair to call⟳ her daughter Emily, a name⟳ associated with her grandmother's servants rather than the author of The Wuthering Heights, so Emma had been chosen, perhaps with the hope⟳ that some of the qualities possessed by the heroine of the novel might be perpetuated.”

“Ken Cuccinelli tweaked the famous poem from Emma Lazarus – whose words, “Give⟳ me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe⟳ free” are long associated with immigration to the US and the nation’s history as a haven – as part of a case for strict new measures pushed Monday by the Trump administration that could dramatically change⟳ the legal immigration system.”

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