Louise

Definitions

1. A female given name from French.
2. A municipality of Manitoba, Canada.

Equivalents

Examples

“Louise, thy stately name⟳ sounds in my ear / Like⟳ a sea wave⟳, that gathering, hill on hill, / Upon the blue horizon, smooth and still, / Sweeps to the shore”

“That's what I baptized her. Mary Louise. Everybody else called her just plain Mary, but that wasn't the way I intended it. I intended it Mary Louise. That's a pretty name⟳, isn't it? Mary Louise. Mary is too...plain?”

“I've always thought I was too large for a soft, musical name⟳ like⟳ Louise, too untidy.”

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