Camille

name

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Definitions

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

    "- - - homecoming weekend at Colgate was frat parties like this, wild earsplitting drunken and not for sensitive girls like Camille, even her name was sensitive, delicate, Camille was to Lionel the most beautiful name he'd ever spoken, like music, - - -"

  2. 2
    A courtesan (from the English translations of La Dame aux Camélias) figuratively

    "Larry went about alternately urging Margo to disguise herself as a peasant and fly to Peter’s arms, or to stop behaving like Camille."

Example

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"Camille is frustrated with Alan's distracted attitude."

Etymology

From French Camille (“Camilla”). Doublet of Camilla.

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