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Taylor vs Charlotte - What's the difference?

taylor | charlotte |

As proper nouns the difference between taylor and charlotte

is that taylor is {{surname|from=occupations} while Charlotte is {{given name|female|from=French|}}.

As a noun Charlotte is

designating a type of women's bonnet popular in the 18th and 19th centuries.

taylor

English

Proper noun

(s)
  • , transferred from the surname.
  • popular in the 1990s and 2000s.
  • * 2001 , Paul Theroux, Hotel Honolulu , page 206:
    • "I wanted to call her Taylor , but my husband said no," Sweetie was telling one of the Christmas party guests.
    "Taylor means a tailor," I said. "It seems inauspicious. Like calling her Cobbler."
    "That's a kind of drink," said Nani.

    Derived terms

    * Taylorism

    Related terms

    * Tayla

    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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