Etymology

Proper noun

2. An early Christian.

Quotations

• For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

• 1731 Jonathan Swift: Strephon and Chloe:

  Of Chloe all the town has rung;

  By ev'ry Size of Poets sung.

  So beautiful a Nymph appears

  But once in Twenty Thousand Years.

• 1981 William Boyd: A Good Man in Africa. H.Hamilton 1981. ISBN 0241105161 page 24:

  Before he had met this one, Morgan had assumed that people called Chloe were either the neurotic brilliant daughters of Oxbridge dons or else silly screaming debutantes.