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Southern England
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Erisnimi
- A female given name from Latin.
- (logic) A syllogism in which all three propositions are of the form "All X are Y" or "X is a Y".
Esimerkit
- My mother had a maid call'd Barbara; / She was in love, and he she lov'd prov'd mad / And did forsake her; she had a song of 'willow'
- All in the merrye month of May / When greene buds they were swellin / Yong Jemmye Grove on his death-bed lay / For love of Barbara Allen.
- "What do you think they are going to name the baby? Anne; after her and her mamma. So very ugly a name!" "I don't think so," said Mr Carlyle. "It is simple and unpretending. I like it much. Look at the long, pretentious names in our family - Archibald! Cornelia! And yours, too - Barbara! What a mouthful they all are!" Barbara contracted her eyebrows. It was equivalent to saying that he did not like her name.
- "Everybody in the next generation," suggested Dick, "will be named Peter or Barbara - because at present all piquant literary characters are named Peter or Barbara."
- 'Barbara?' Barr―baah―rrah. Barbarian woman. Wild. Untamed. An incredibly sexy name.
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