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Marionetta
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marionetta
English
Etymology
From en Marion etta.
Proper noun
en female coinages.
22 February 1925 In Thomas Love Peacock the Plot Does Not MatterHis Collected Works in Ten Volumes of the Halliford Edition https://www.nytimes.com/1925/02/22/archives/in-thomas-love-peacock-the-plot-does-not-matter-his-collected-works.html “Nightmare Abbey” is an excellent example of this satire. Here we find the melancholic Scythrop Glowry, a fictional figure in which the poet Shelley is thinly disguised, torn between two fair maidens, Marionetta and Celinda.
4 September 1931 Warren Crawford Mead. New Haven Railroad Trainman Dies Suddenly at Station. https://www.nytimes.com/1931/09/04/archives/warren-crawford-mead-new-haven-railroad-trainman-dies-suddenly-at.html He was born seventy years ago in East Portchester, the son of the late William Knapp Mead and Marionetta Crawford Mead.
26 October 2002 Nancy Trejos; w:Brigid Schulte Open Windows, Happy Cheers https://web.archive.org/web/20260225094549/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2002/10/26/open-windows-happy-cheers/4563c295-cb6e-4838-ac73-fadc80c8148e/ Once the students were inside, special education teacher Marionetta Lofton made sure they followed the dress code.
Related terms
en Marietta