Laura vs Louise - What's the difference?
laura | louise |
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* ~1591 William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet : Act II, Scene IV:
* 1960 Peter S. Beagle: A Fine And Private Place . Random House Publishing, 1982:The Fantasy Worlds of Peter Beagle. ISBN 0345300815 page 258:
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* 1890 Arthur Weir, John Arthur Lockhart: The Romance of Sir Richard. Published by William Drysdale&Co. page 83:
* 1957 , The Con Man , Armchair Detective Library (1991), ISBN 0922890935, page 47:
* 1991 Emily Ellison, The Picture Makers , G.K.Hall, ISBN 0816151660, page 111:
As a noun laura
is (historical|roman catholic church) a number of hermitages or cells in the same neighborhood occupied by anchorites who were under the same superior.As a proper noun louise is
.laura
English
(wikipedia Laura)Alternative forms
* Lora (rare)Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Now is he for the numbers that Petrarch flowed in; Laura to his lady was but a kitchen-wench; marry, she had a better love to be-rime her;
- Laura was saying something. A mellifluous name, he thought. I wish she were far away, so I could call her.
Usage notes
* Also used as a feminine equivalent of Laurence.Anagrams
* ----louise
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Louise , thy stately name sounds in my ear / Like a sea wave, that gathering, hill on hill, / Upon the blue horizon, smooth and still, / Sweeps to the shore
- That's what I baptized her. Mary Louise'. Everybody else called her just plain Mary, but that wasn't the way I intended it. I intended it Mary '''Louise'''. That's a pretty name, isn't it? Mary ' Louise . Mary is too...plain?
- I've always thought I was too large for a soft, musical name like Louise , too untidy.
