Ursula
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Etymology
Name of a fourth century saint, from and -ula (diminutive suffix), meaning "little she-bear".
Quotations
:Scene I:-
- Whisper her ear, and tell her , I and Ursula / Walk in the orchard, and our whole discourse / Is all of her;
- 1857 Dinah Craik, John Halifax, Gentleman, Chapter III:
- "Is her name Ursula?" And I called to mind the little girl who had tried to give some bread to the hungry John Halifax, and whose cry of pain we heard as the door shut upon her. Poor little lady! how sorry I was.
Proper noun
- of origin, very popular from the 1930s to the 1960s.