Definitions
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- proper noun A female
given name .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The two guitars which they had found in the castle, they strung with wire, and managed to have some music every evening in the twilight; then they had a time set apart, also in the early part of the evening, which they called Cora's hour.
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Hemeets his match in Cora's teenage sister in one of the film's most extraordinary scenes.
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To Find Cora -- originally published as Cora is a Nympho by Novel Books in 1963 -- To Find Cora is Harry's original title, and much truer to the story.
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Cat Cora is committing one of my biggest pet peeves, she has presented a dish with both a gelee and a foam.
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Cat Cora is committing one of my biggest pet peeves, she has presented a dish with both a gelee and a foam.
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To Find Cora -- originally published as Cora is a Nympho by Novel Books in 1963 -- To Find Cora is Harry's original title, and much truer to the story.
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At birth, I was given the name of Cora, after my grandmother.
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At birth, I was given the name of Cora, after my grandmother.
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Later I discovered that Cora comes from the Greek for "maiden," and was one of the epithets used for Persephone.
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"And how long has the woman whom he calls Cora been known to you?"
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