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emma | christine |

As a noun emma

is (british|dated|wwi|signalese) m in.

As a proper noun christine is

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emma

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
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  • * 1854 Matthew Hall: The Queens Before the Conquest : page 259-260:
    • Both Saxon and Norman chroniclers unite in representing the youthful Queen Emma as in a peculiar degree gifted with elegance and beauty; so that many flattering epithets had been bestowed on her - as "the Pearl," "the Flower," or "the Fair Maid" of Normandy.
  • * 1917 Carl Van Vechten: Interpreters and Interpretations. A.A.Knopf,1917. page 92:
    • Emma' CalvĂ©...since ''Madame Bovary'' the name '''Emma''' suggests a solid ''bourgeois'' foundation, a country family...' Emma Eames, a chilly name...a wind from the East.
  • * 1980 Barbara Pym: A Few Green Leaves ISBN 0060805498 page 8:
    • The cottage now belonged to Emma''s mother Beatrix, who was a tutor in English literature at a women's college, specialising in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel. This may have accounted for '''Emma''''s Christian name, for it had seemed to Beatrix unfair to call her daughter Emily, a name associated with her grandmother's servants rather than the author of ''The Wuthering Heights'', so ' Emma had been chosen, perhaps with the hope that some of the qualities possessed by the heroine of the novel might be perpetuated.

    Usage notes

    * Used in England since the Norman Conquest, fashionable in the 19th century, and again in the U.K. from the 1970s to the 1990s, and in the U.S.A. in the 1990s and the 2000s.

    Related terms

    * (pet forms ) Em, Emmie, Emmy * (female given names ) Ermengarde, Irma * (surnames ) Emmett, Emmitt, Emmott

    christine

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
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  • * 1913 Ethel May Dell: The Rocks of ValprĂ© . BiblioBazaar, LLC 2007. ISBN 1426470819 page 36:
    • "Chris?" he repeated after her very softly, his eyes upon her, tenderly indulgent. "Ah! let it be Christine . I may call you that?"
    "My actual name is Christina, but that's a detail. You can call me Christine if you like it best."

    Usage notes

    * Popular in the 20th century in the Anglo-Saxon world.