Her name is spelled Coleen making her "Co" with a hard O and not Colleen by any stretch - I'm suspicious on her authority on the subject.
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Colleen
/kəˈlin/
Synonyms for "colleen" (54 found)
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Noun(1 words)
young woman
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Down a boreen green came a sweet colleen \ And she smiled as she passed me by.
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So here was Timothy McShanus deserting the baked meats, to say nothing of his convenient corner in the buffet, to go out and stare at a red shepherdess with picture books and maizypop to sell. And what kind of a colleen was it that he saw? […] Young as she was—and I supposed her to be about eighteen—her figure would have given her five years more according to our northern ideas; […]
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