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Charmian
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English
Etymology
Diminutive form of en grc χάρμα joy. According to Plutarch, the name of a servant and advisor of Cleopatra.
Proper noun
en female Ancient Greek.
I III Help me away, dear Charmian, I shall fall:
en 1979 Mary McMullen But Nellie Was So Nice 23 Doubleday Charmian Lyle had given herself her first name at the age of sixteen, upon encountering it in an English novel. Her baptismal name was Ethel. When her husband Walter was extremely angry with her, he called her Ethel. Charmian, she thought, suited her much better. She didn't think she looked, felt, or sounded like Ethel. Nor like her middle name, which she really detested, Edna.
Anagrams
en aachimnr chairman