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Lalage

Lalage proper noun: a female given name from Ancient Greek.

Proper noun

Lalage

  1. A female given name from Ancient Greek.
    • "What's her name?"
      "Lalage." She pronounced it as a dactyl, the g hard. Still she could not raise her eyes. " Mr Rossetti approached me one day in the street. […] He himself proposed the name. He is her godfather." She murmured, "I know it is strange."1969, John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman, Penguin, published 1981, →ISBN, page 359

Forms of Lalage

alternative formLallage

Origin of Lalage

From Ancient Greek λᾰλᾰγή (lălăgḗ, “to prattle”).

Questions about Lalage

What does Lalage mean?
Lalage means a female given name from Ancient Greek.
What part of speech is Lalage?
Lalage is a proper noun.

Words near Lalage in the dictionary

  1. lala
  2. lala bop
  3. lala bops
  4. Lala land
  5. Lala-Roba
  6. Lalage
  7. Lalaguna
  8. lalaland
  9. Lalalty
  10. Lalande
  11. lalang

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