Mathilde

Proper noun

Mathilde

1. A female given name.
   • Miss Mathilde Townsend, daughter of the late Richard Townsend and Washington’s great heiress and beauty, is experimenting along a new line to avert nervous prostration and its kindred ills so generally a part of each Washington season as to be taken as a matter of course.1908 March 1, “Cure for ‘Society’ Nerves: Miss Townsend Spends Eight Hours Daily Running an Auto at High Speed. […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC
   • The will of Miss Mathilde M. Dunning, a sister of the late Professor William A. Dunning, for many years on the Faculty of Columbia University as Professor of History and Political Philosophy, was filed for probate yesterday.1926 May 18, “Historical Essay Fund Left by Miss Dunning […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC