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Camille

Camille proper noun: a unisex given name from French.

Proper noun

Camille

  1. A unisex given name from French.
    • - - - 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, - - -2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age: A Romance, Fourth Estate, published 2002, →ISBN, page 88
  2. (figuratively) A courtesan (from the English translations of La Dame aux Camélias)
    • Larry went about alternately urging Margo to disguise herself as a peasant and fly to Peter’s arms, or to stop behaving like Camille.1956, Gerald Durrell, chapter 12, in My Family and Other Animals, London: Penguin, page 172

Origin of Camille

From French Camille (“Camilla”). Doublet of Camilla.

Questions about Camille

What does Camille mean?
Camille means a unisex given name from French.
What part of speech is Camille?
Camille is a proper noun.

Words near Camille in the dictionary

  1. camiknickers
  2. Camiling
  3. Camilla
  4. Camillagate
  5. Camillas
  6. Camille
  7. Camilleri
  8. Camilleris
  9. Camilli
  10. Camillian
  11. Camillians

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