Leela

name

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A female given name from Sanskrit used in India, a spelling variant of Lila.

    "Dorothy's daughters were of exceptional beauty and the sisters could complain only that the Hindi names Dorothy had chosen - Mira, Leela, Lena - were meant to pass as Western ones."

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"Dorothy's daughters were of exceptional beauty and the sisters could complain only that the Hindi names Dorothy had chosen - Mira, Leela, Lena - were meant to pass as Western ones."

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