Laura
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Etymology


feminine form of . A post-classical name made famous by Petrarch's sonnets to Laura in the fourteenth century.

Quotations

  • ~1591 William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet: Act II, Scene IV:
    Now is he for the numbers that Petrarch flowed in; Laura to his lady was but a kitchen-wench; marry, she had a better love to be-rime her;
  • 1960 Peter S. Beagle: A Fine And Private Place. Random House Publishing, 1982:The Fantasy Worlds of Peter Beagle. ISBN 0345300815 page 258:
    Laura was saying something. A mellifluous name, he thought. I wish she were far away, so I could call her.

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  1. , cognate to Laura.


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  1. , a Latinate variant of Laure.


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