Lalage
name
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Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A female given name from Ancient Greek.
""What's her name?" "Lalage." She pronounced it as a dactyl, the g hard. Still she could not raise her eyes. " Mr Rossetti approached me one day in the street. […] He himself proposed the name. He is her godfather." She murmured, "I know it is strange.""
Example
More examples""What's her name?" "Lalage." She pronounced it as a dactyl, the g hard. Still she could not raise her eyes. " Mr Rossetti approached me one day in the street. […] He himself proposed the name. He is her godfather." She murmured, "I know it is strange.""
Etymology
From Ancient Greek λᾰλᾰγή (lălăgḗ, “to prattle”).
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