Lalage
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  • 1969, John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman, Penguin 1981, ISBN 0451135989, page 359:
    "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."
 
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