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Caroline
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- 1 Synonym of Carolean (“relating to the time of Kings Charles I and II of England or Charles III of the United Kingdom, or of the kings themselves”). not-comparable
"For that poem, though in certain ‘strange and high’ qualities it is the inferior of the best jets of the Caroline genius, is one of the most faultless and perfect things in this or indeed in any period of English poetry, and may be said to impart the Caroline essence in a form that can be (in the medical sense) ‘borne’ by all who have any feeling for poetry at all, as hardly anything else does."
- 1 of or relating to the life and times of kings Charles I or Charles II of England wordnet
- 1 A female given name from the Germanic languages.
"- - - gentle Sophias milk your cows, and if you ask a pretty smiling girl at a cottage door to tell you her name, the rosy lips lisp out Caroline. A great number of children, amongst the lower classes, are Carolines. That does not, however, wholly proceed from the love of the appellation; though I believe that a queen Margery or a queen Sarah would have had fewer namesakes."
- 1 Synonym of Carolean.
"The shooting star, which dissolved on reaching earth into dew or ‘jelly’, is very common with Carolines."
- 2 An old silver coin of Italy. historical
"[…] the publication of the book is permitted, and a tax of four carolines on each volume must be paid by the publisher. This sum is exorbitant, when we consider the cheapness of Italian books."
Etymology
From Latin Carolus + -ine.
From Latin Carolus + -ine.
Borrowed in the 17th century from the French form of Carolina, feminine derivative of Carolus, the Latin equivalent of Charles, which came from Middle High German Karl.
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