Camille

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English

Etymology

From French Camille (Camilla). Doublet of Camilla.

Proper noun

Camille

  1. A unisex given name from French.
    • 2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age: A Romance, Fourth Estate, published 2002, →ISBN, page 88:
      - - - homecoming weekend at Colgate was frat parties like this, wild earsplitting drunken and not for sensitive girls like Camille, even her name was sensitive, delicate, Camille was to Lionel the most beautiful name he'd ever spoken, like music, - - -
  2. (figurative) A courtesan (from the English translations of La Dame aux Camélias)
    • 1956, Gerald Durrell, chapter 12, in My Family and Other Animals, London: Penguin, page 172:
      Larry went about alternately urging Margo to disguise herself as a peasant and fly to Peter’s arms, or to stop behaving like Camille.

Anagrams

Cebuano

Etymology

From English Camille, from French Camille.

Proper noun

Camille

  1. a female given name from English

French

Etymology

(male): From Latin Camillus
(female): From Latin Camilla

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Camille m or f

  1. a unisex given name from Latin