Teresa

Definitions

1. A type of light lady's kerchief in the late eighteenth century.
   obsolete
2. A female given name from Ancient Greek, the Spanish and Italian form of Theresa.
3. A municipality of Rizal, Philippines.

Equivalents

Examples

“My friends call⟳ me Terry. My husband always used my full name⟳, Teresa. He said it made him feel⟳ like⟳ he was married to a foreign woman.”

“Cynthia and Melinda, reduced to Cindy and Mindy, as Carella had dreaded would happen⟳ from the moment she named them. Her older daughter had fared better. Tess, modern and sleek for Teresa, which conjured up cobblestoned streets in a mountain village in Potenza.”

“A black teresa, thrown round her shoulders, set⟳ off the dazzling whiteness of a neck, rounded by the hands of the graces.”

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