Louise vs Helen - What's the difference?
louise | helen |
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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:
(Greek mythology) the daughter of Zeus and Leda, considered to be the most beautiful woman in the world; her abduction by Paris brought about the Trojan War.
* 1602 William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida , Act I, Scene I
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* 1928 , The Mystery of the Blue Train
* 1993 , The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien , ISBN 0-14-023028-9, page 6:
* 2003 , A Share in Death'', HarperCollins, ISBN 0060534389, page 189
As proper nouns the difference between louise and helen
is that louise is while helen is , a french type variant of helena.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.
Usage notes
Used in English since the seventeenth century, more in the U.K. than in the U.S.A. A common middle name today.helen
English
Proper noun
(s)- Fools on both sides! Helen must needs be fair,
- When with your blood you daily paint her thus.
- "Is her name Ellen or Helen , Miss Viner? I thought - "
- Miss Viner closed her eyes.
- "I can sound my h's, dear, as well as anyone, but Helen is not a suitable name for a servant. I don't know what the mothers in the lower classes are coming to nowadays."
- - - - in 1910 she brought Helen' into the world, the little female, or "''mujercita''", as her mother called all the babies, naming her after the glittery label on a facial ointment, The ' Helen of Troy Beauty Pomade, said to eradicate wrinkles, to soften and add a youthful glow to the user's skin - a fortuitous choice because, of all the sisters, she would be the most beautiful and, never growing old, would always possess the face of a winsome adolescent beauty.
- Gemma followed her, thinking that Helen seemed rather an old-fashioned and elegant name for this rumpled young mother.