Gertrude (given name)
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Etymology
From Germanic gār, gēr"spear" + þrūþ"strength"; name of a Belgian seventh century saint.
Quotations
: Act IV, Scene V:-
- O Gertrude, Gertrude!
- When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
- But in battalions.
- 1850 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Blessed Damozel, lines 103-108
- "We two," she said, "will seek the groves
- Where the lady Mary is,
- With her five handmaidens, whose names
- Are five sweet symphonies,
- Cecily, Gertrude, Magdalen,
- Margaret and Rosalys.