Deanna vs Brittany - What's the difference?
deanna | brittany |
, a twentieth century variant of Diana, sometimes also seen as a feminine form of Dean.
A region in north-west France.
* 1595 , (William Shakespeare), King Henry VI, part 3 , First Folio 1623, Act II, Scene VI:
*:First, will I see the Coronation, / And then to Britanny Ile crosse the Sea, / To effect this marriage, so it please my Lord.
(obsolete, chiefly, poetic) The British Isles.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.11:
*:The noble Thamis […] seem'd to stoupe afore / With bowed backe, by reason of the lode / And auncient heavy burden which he bore / Of that faire City, wherein make abode / So many learned impes, that shoote abrode, / And with their braunches spred all Britany […].
popular in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s.
* 1990 (Alice Munro), Friend of My Youth , ISBN 0679729577, page 102:
* 1999 (Andrew Pyper), Lost Girls : Chapter Ten:
As a noun deanna
is .As a proper noun brittany is
a region in north-west france.deanna
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Proper noun
(en proper noun)Anagrams
*brittany
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Alternative forms
* (female given name) Britney, BrittneyProper noun
(en proper noun)- - - - No one has family names. These girls with rooster hair I see on the streets. They pick the names. They're the mothers." "I have a granddaughter named Brittany ," Hazel said. " And I have heard of a little girl called Cappuccino." "Cappuccino! Is that true? Why don't they call one Cassaulet? Fettuccini? Alsace-Lorraine?"
- Names of the times. Borrowed from soap opera characters of prominence fifteen years ago, who have since been replaced by spiffy new models: the social-climbing Brittany'' now an unscrupulous ''Burke'', the generous ''Pamela'' a refitted, urbanized ''Parker .