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claire | gordon |

As a verb claire

is .

As a noun gordon is

double bass, contrabass.

claire

English

Alternative forms

* Clare, Clair

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • borrowed from the French form of Clara or Clare. Popular in the UK in the 1970s and the 1980s.
  • * 1887 Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch: Dead Man's Rock. BiblioBazaar,LLC,2007. ISBN 1434649393 page 198:
  • "I told you I was called ,or that they called me Claire . Were you not surprised when you saw my name as Clarissa Lambert?"
    "Is that all?" I cried. "Why of course, I knew how common it is for actresses to take another name. I was even glad of it; for the name I know, your own name, is now a secret, and all the sweeter so. All the world admires Clarissa Lambert, but I alone love Claire' Luttrell, and know that ' Claire Luttrell loves me."
  • * 2006 Wendy Harmer: Farewell My Ovaries . Allen&Unwin 2006. ISBN 1741146658 page 93:
  • A woman named Claire' should be able to describe the moon. Clair de Lune was of course one of ' Claire' s favourite pieces of piano music.
  • , a rare spelling variant Clare, derived from the surname.
  • * 1991 Amy Tan: The Kitchen God's Wife . Ivy Books 1991. ISBN 080410753X page 203:
  • When we arrived in Hangchow, all the pilots were honored at a big banquet given by that famous American general with a lady's name, Claire Chennault.

    Anagrams

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    gordon

    English

    Alternative forms

    * Gorden

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • * 1822 , Poetical Works: Halidon Hill (Baudry's European Library, 1838), page 420:
  • Mount, vassals, couch your lances, and cry, "Gordon !
    Gordon for Scotland and Elizabeth!"
  • Any of several places, outside Scotland named for persons with the surname.
  • transferred from the surname. Popular in the UK in the first half of the 20th century.
  • * 1913 Harry Leon Wilson, Bunker Bean (BiblioBazaar, LLC, 2008, ISBN 0554347148), page 13:
  • Often he wrote good ones on casual slips and fancied them his; names like Trevellyan or Montressor or Delancey, with musical prefixes; or a good, short, beautiful, but dignified name like "Gordon Dane". He liked that one. It suggested something.

    References

    * Reaney & Wilson: A Dictionary of English Surnames, OUP 1997 *