Bria

name

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Italian.
  2. 2
    A female given name.

    "She'd always refused to be called anything but Brianna. Yet when Mike had first called her Bria, they were making love for the first time, and the gentle way he spoke the name had sounded like poetry."

Example

More examples

"She'd always refused to be called anything but Brianna. Yet when Mike had first called her Bria, they were making love for the first time, and the gentle way he spoke the name had sounded like poetry."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian Bria, a surname of uncertain meaning.

Etymology 2

A 20th-century short form of Briana.

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