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jordan | charlotte |

As nouns the difference between jordan and charlotte

is that jordan is (obsolete) a pot or vessel with a large neck, formerly used by physicians and alchemists while charlotte is a dessert containing sponge, fruit and cream or custard.

jordan

English

(wikipedia Jordan)

Proper noun

(s)
  • A country in the Middle East. Official name: Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
  • A river of the Middle East, mentioned in the Bible, that empties into the Dead Sea, and after which the country is named.
  • ; in the Middle Ages given to children baptized with Jordan water brought by Crusaders.
  • * 1989 (Jeanette Winterson), Sexing the Cherry , Grove Press 1998, ISBN 0802135781, pages 3-4:
    • I call him Jordan and it will do. He has no other name before or after. What was there to call him, fished as he was from the stinking Thames? A child can't be called Thames, no and not Nile either, for all his likeness to Moses. But I wanted to given him a river name, a name not bound to anything, just as the waters aren't bound to anything.
  • derived from the male given name.
  • used since mid-20th century.

    • Derived terms

    * Jordanian * Jordanesque *Jordanianism *Jordanianness

    See also

    * English unisex given names ----

    charlotte

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • .
  • * 1852 D. H. Jacques, A Chapter on Names , The Knickerbocker, or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume XL, August 1852, page 117:
    • My Charlotte conquers with a smile, / And reigneth queen of love.
    In the home-circle and among her companions, Charlotte lays aside her queenship and becomes a gentle Lottie .
  • * 1859 (George Eliot), Adam Bede , Chapter VII:
    • "Here's Totty! By-and-by, what's her other name? She wasn't christened Totty." "Oh, sir, we call her sadly out of name. Charlotte''s her christened name. It's a name i' Mr. Poyser's family; his grandmother was named ' Charlotte . But we began calling her Lotty, and now it's got to Totty. To be sure it's more like a name for a dog than a Christian child."
  • * 2007 (Sophie Hannah), Hurting Distance , Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN 9780340 937907, page 225:
    • 'Can I call you Charlotte ?'
    'No. I hate the name, makes me sound like a Victorian aunt. I'm Charlie, and no, you can't call me that either.'
  • The largest city in the state of North Carolina.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (historical) Designating a type of women's bonnet popular in the 18th and 19th centuries.
  • * 1764 , The Scots Magazine , Sep 1764:
    • The Charlotte bonnet'', form'd to please, / And ''Strelitz coif she wore with ease.
  • * 1819 , La Belle Assemblée , Apr 1819:
    • the Charlotte bonnet, from the Sorrows of Werther , was the most becoming and elegantly retired bonnet ever yet sported for walking.
  • * 1968 , Gisèle d'Assailly, Ages of Elegance :
    • Women now resembled well-rounded cabbages from which protruded a tiny head crushed beneath a Charlotte hat covered with plumes and gew-gaws.
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