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- proper noun A female
given name .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Giles: Um, she's called Drusilla, a sometime paramour of Spike's.
Making Light: Scholarly works to avoid citing at all costs 2010
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They say when we have passed over the river that the things of this world will no longer interest us; but, Drusilla, that is not true.
Drusilla with a Million Elizabeth Cooper 1911
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"Drusilla" -- you'd never suspect what he was up to -- "we all favor your voice in the ditty of My Son John.
Blue Ridge Country Jean Thomas 1945
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But when her husband says she found "Drusilla," a fictional character an over-the-top evil crazy vampire one, at that, to be a role model...it highlights what could be a real problem.
Snark Blocker: Buffy Season 8 #10 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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And Robert, standing, in a deep voice answered: "Drusilla," borrowing quite unconsciously Suzanna's way of name, "Drusilla, I have taken upon myself this day the great responsibility of a woman's happiness --" he paused and bent a look of ineffable tenderness upon his wife -- "and please God I shall keep that responsibility while life lasts."
Suzanna Stirs the Fire Emily Calvin Blake
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"Drusilla," he said before them all, "do you care as much as that?"
The Tin Soldier Temple Bailey
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"Drusilla," she said (if I have not already mentioned that my Christian name is Drusilla, permit me to mention it now), "you are touching quite innocently, I know -- on a very distressing subject."
The Moonstone Wilkie Collins 1856
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And the new leader is a woman who looks an awful lot like Harley Quinn with a Drusilla makeover.
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I can't bring myself to think of her as a he so Drusilla it remains.
Archive 2009-05-01 The Curious Holts 2009
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Drusilla Modjeska – I loved, loved, loved The Orchard when I read it almost a year ago, and then I went around and bought whatever I could find by Modjeska.
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