sandra English
Proper noun
( s)
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* 1971 , The Fruit Man, the Meat Man & the Manager: Stories, Oberon Press 1971, page 23:
- "Sandra', that's no name for anybody; that was a name for movie stars around 1948. Nobody's used it since. But the fact is, her name really is '''Sandra'''. - - - In the mills towns like Torrington and Bristol, the Italians might very well call a girl '''Sandra''' for real. Straight. It's just short for Alessandra. Alexandra. So she has numerous choices - she can be Sandy, a clean-cut WASP, or she can be Renaissance Alessandra, or movie-star ' Sandra , or old-fashioned Edwardian Alexandra, all on the one name."
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Usage notes
* Popular in the Anglophone world from the 1940s to the 1960s.
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sara Proper noun
( en proper noun)
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- Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
*1850 (Dinah Craik), Olive , Chapman and Hall, page 151:
- Olive learnt that her young beauty's name, so far from being anything so fine as Maddalena, was plain Sarah — or Sara , as its owner took care to explain. Olive was rather disappointed - but she thought of Coleridge's ladye love; consoled herself, and tried to console the young lady, with repeating
*::My pensive Sara ! thy soft cheek reclined, &c.
*:At which Miss Sara Derwent laughed, and asked who wrote that very pretty poetry?
* 2008 , The Northern Clemency , Harpercollins, ISBN 9780007174799, page 175
- 'I wish I was called Sara ,' she said out loud.
- 'Sarah?' her mother said. 'Why the heck is being called Sarah better than being called Tracy?'
- 'Not Sarah, Sara ,' Tracy said. 'There's no h , you say Saaara.'
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