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- proper noun A female
given name , a variant ofGuinevere borrowed from Italian.
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Examples
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Mildmay, the Fox is a cat burglar and former hired assassin who accepts a new commission from a young woman called Ginevra and falls in love with her.
Reviews of fantasy and science fiction books Kristen 2009
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Mildmay, the Fox is a cat burglar and former hired assassin who accepts a new commission from a young woman called Ginevra and falls in love with her.
Archive 2009-02-01 Kristen 2009
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Andronic will not name Ginevra's name before "that woman" and all the lofty lords, and then there's a grand scene.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Various
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Ariosto's version, in which the injured heroine is called Ginevra, and her lover Ariodante, had been dramatised before.
A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892
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Messer Neri and asked him who were the two damsels, to which the gentleman answered, 'My lord, these are my daughters born at a birth, whereof the one is called Ginevra the Fair and the other Isotta the
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344
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= By the Author of "Ginevra," etc. Crown 8vo, _6s.
Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta W. Cope Devereux
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= Poems by the Author of "Ginevra," etc. Crown 8vo, _5s.
Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta W. Cope Devereux
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Three Tragedies by the author of "Ginevra," etc. Crown 8vo, _6s.
Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta W. Cope Devereux
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Ida Hunter recited the pathetic story of "Ginevra," and Meta Powers "Before and After Marriage" in quite a dramatic manner.
Then and Now;--Or,--Hope's First School Zillah Raymond 1883
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She was both gentle and dignified; but would have done a nature inferior to Ginevra's injury by the way she talked of things right and wrong as becoming or not becoming in a lady of position such as Ginevra would one day find herself.
Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864
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