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- proper noun A female
given name , anglicized from FrenchDésirée .
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Examples
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This is now; that was then: LEFT: Alex Prager Desiree from the series The Big Valley.
Cat Weaver: Alex Prager: Where We Went From There Cat Weaver 2010
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Desiree is one of his friends who must be protected.
House committee votes to subpoena White House party crashers 2009
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This is now; that was then: LEFT: Alex Prager Desiree from the series The Big Valley.
Cat Weaver: Alex Prager: Where We Went From There Cat Weaver 2010
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On the drive back, the girls attempt to lose the boys, but the narrator's best friend, Desiree, is an insatiable flirt.
slayground: Boy Heaven by Laura Kasischke Little Willow 2006
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"The name Desiree was a tribute to my sister, Phyllis, whose middle name started with a D," she says.
The Clog 2009
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Sheldon Good & Company The property went to an international buyer who, according to the county recorder's office, purchased it through a company called Desiree Inc. The purchase price could not be learned.
Private Properties 2011
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The property went to an international buyer who, according to the county recorder's office, purchased the property through a company called Desiree Inc. The purchase price could not be learned.
Private Properties 2011
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Of course both the king and queen were delighted, and the child was called Desiree, which means
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Grafin had just admitted that it was almost as good as that other cake which had been consumed in the days of Frederick the Great, when the servant called Desiree from the room.
Barlasch of the Guard Henry Seton Merriman 1882
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Her Desiree is the queen bee of the evening, a barnstorming actress on tour in the Swedish provinces at the turn of the last century, with two swains on her hands - both, of course, married.
Playbill.com : News 2010
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