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claire | pippin |

As a verb claire

is .

As a noun pippin is

a seed or pippin can be any of several varieties of eating apple that have a yellow or green skin with patches of red.

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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    pippin

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) pipin, from (etyl) ). See pip.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A seed
  • Etymology 2

    Probably from (etyl) , as being raised from the seed.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of several varieties of eating apple that have a yellow or green skin with patches of red
  • Any of several roundish or oblate apple varieties
  • An apple tree raised from a seed (not grafted)