Bernadette

//ˌbɜː.nəˈdɛt// name

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A female given name from French.

    "Bernadette Woolley was aware that her name was professionally inappropriate. She tended to get a lot of jokes about it. There had even been recommendations that she change it. The pious connotations put men off, it was averred. Non-Catholics recognised her allegiance at once because of the label, and scorned her for it; while co-religionists, reminded inappropriately of the Virgin apparition at Lourdes, blushed, or sniggered, or asked for another girl."

Etymology

From French Bernadette, made famous by St. Bernadette of Lourdes.

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