Quotations

• ~1590 William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part II, Act IV, Scene I

  Whitmore. And so am I; my name is Walter Whitmore. / How now! why start'st thou? what! doth death affright?

  Suffolk. Thy name affrights me, in whose sound is death. / A cunning man did calculate my birth, / And told me that by Water I should die. / Yet let not this make thee be bloody-minded; / Thy name is - Gaultier, being rightly sounded.

• 1991 Julian Barnes, Talking It Over, ISBN 0-224-03157-0 page 13:

  And with some appellations, the contrary applies. Like Walter, for instance. You can't be Walter in a pram. You can't be Walter until you're about seventy-five in my view.

Proper noun

1. in regular use since Middle Ages, cognate to English Walter.

Proper noun

1. , variant spelling of Valter.