Definitions
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- proper n. A surname, from lark as a byname or for a catcher and seller of larks.
- proper n. A patronymic surname shortened from Larkin, a medieval diminutive of Laurence.
- proper n. A male given name occasionally transferred from the surnames.
- proper n. A female given name from the lark bird.
Etymologies
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Examples
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This legion, from the fashion of their crested helmets, which resembled the crested heads of a small bird of the lark species, received the popular name of the _Alauda_ (or Lark) legion.
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I missed the programme last night, being immersed in Lark Rise to Candlewick and Lewis's Store Detectives.
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Nowhere, had a suite of eighteen rooms at her disposal in "Lark Lane."
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LS: The Lark is a resource center for playwrights at any stage in their career, at any point in their process, through programs for the development of new plays.
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The Lark was the appellation which had replaced Ursule in the depths of
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Who was this “little one” whom Thenardier had called the Lark?
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I do agree with j that regrets are important in that they help us improve, but mostly would like to thank Simon for recalling The Lark Ascending for me.
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The Lark was the appellation which had replaced Ursule in the depths of Marius 'melancholy.
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Who was this "little one" whom Thenardier had called the Lark?
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With Keats I shall send you an Athenaeum with a rather humorous account of a Cockney squabble about whether Shelley called his Lark an
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