Abigail vs Sandra - What's the difference?
abigail | sandra |
(obsolete) A lady’s waiting maid.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, page 415:
* 1847 , Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre :
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* 1971 , The Fruit Man, the Meat Man & the Manager: Stories, Oberon Press 1971, page 23:
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As a proper noun abigail
is the wife of nabal and later of david.As a noun sandra is
zander.abigail
English
Noun
(en noun)- It was therefore concluded that the Abigails should, by turns, relieve each other on one of his lordship’s horses, which was presently equipped with a side-saddle for that purpose.
- In the servants’ hall two coachmen and three gentlemen’s gentlemen stood or sat round the fire; the abigails , I suppose, were upstairs with their mistresses; the new servants, that had been hired from Millcote, were bustling about everywhere.
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sandra
English
Proper noun
(s)- "Sandra', that's no name for anybody; that was a name for movie stars around 1948. Nobody's used it since. But the fact is, her name really is '''Sandra'''. - - - In the mills towns like Torrington and Bristol, the Italians might very well call a girl '''Sandra''' for real. Straight. It's just short for Alessandra. Alexandra. So she has numerous choices - she can be Sandy, a clean-cut WASP, or she can be Renaissance Alessandra, or movie-star ' Sandra , or old-fashioned Edwardian Alexandra, all on the one name."