Zephyr

July 20, 2011 at 3:06 pm (Female Names, General - Names and Naming, Z)
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“Her godparents or whoever wished it on to her should have been guillotined!”

(Elinor M. Brent-Dyer, Jo to the Rescue, 1945)

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Zoraide

November 1, 2009 at 9:04 pm (Female Names, Name Quotes A-Z, Z)
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I remember I was very much amused when I frst heard her Christian name; it was Zoraïde… But the Continental nations do allow themselves vagaries in the choice of names, such as we sober English never run into. I think, indeed, we have too limited a list to choose from.

(Charlotte Brontë, Villette, 1853)

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