Gertrude

//ˈɡɝtɹud// name

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A female given name from the Germanic languages.

    "O Gertrude, Gertrude! / When sorrows come, they come not single spies, / But in battalions."

Example

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"He tells me, my dear Gertrude, he hath found the head and source of all your son’s distemper."

Etymology

From Old French [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *gaizaz (“spear”) + *þrūþiz (“strength”) or *trut- (“maiden, dear”) ; name of a Belgian seventh century saint.

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