Etymology

Quotations

• 1726 Jonathan Swif, Cadenus and Vanessa:

  Vanessa be the Name / By which thou shalt be known to Fame. / Vanessa, by the Gods enroll'd: / Her Name on Earth - shall not be told.

• 1978 Maeve Binchy, Victoria Line, Central Line, Arrow 1993, ISBN 0099218216, page 178, 179:

  A kind of girl that May had before only seen in the pages of fashion magazines, bored, disdainful, elegant, reluctantly admitted her. - - - She was asked to see Vanessa on the way out. She knew that the girl would be called something like Vanessa.

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