Dimity

dimity English Etymology The given name is apparently from the name of the light cotton fabric, dimity. However, since it is found primarily as an Irish name, it may have originated as a feminine equivalent of Dermot.76–77 76 en Surname Proper noun en female of modern usage. 1990, Miss Read (Dora Jessie Saint), Friends at Thrush Green, 2002, page 98, 'Raffle books,' she announced. 'What for?' enquired Dimity, feeling for her purse and about to do a vicar's wife's familiar duty. en. en 1843 N. P. Willis Meena Dimity: Or Why Mr. Brown Crash Took His Tour George R. Graham; Rufus W. Griswold Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature and Art 22-23 https://books.google.com.au/books?id=1-g4AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA134&dq=%22Dimity%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=EPPmVIn8EtHX8gXl44GQBg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Dimity%22&f=false 134 The Diaper family lived in Sassafras street—the Dimity family in Pepperidge street; and the fathers of the Diaper girls and the Dimity girls were worth about the same money, and had both made it in the lumber line. References