Bertha - What does it mean?
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* 1858 , The Courtship of Miles Standish :
* 1921 , Rilla of Ingleside , Echo Library (2006), ISBN 1406821772, page 12:
* 1983 , Bluebeard's Egg , McCleland-Bantam, ISBN 0770421342, page 135:
bertha
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- You are the beautiful Bertha , the spinner, the queen of Helvetia; / She whose story I read at a stall in the streets of Southampton
- Why couldn't they have called her by her first name, Bertha , which was beautiful and dignified, instead of that silly "Rilla"?
- "No wonder she never gets anywhere with a name like Bertha'," Sally said, while having coffee afterwards with two of the other night-coursers. "It goes with her outfits, though." ( ' Bertha sports the macrame look, with health-food sandals and hand-weave skirts that don't do a thing for her square figure, [...])
