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- proper noun A
Scottish surname meaning "garden of hollies". - proper noun A female
given name derived from the surname,used since the 18th century. Popular in the U.K. in the mid-20th century. - proper noun rare : A male
given name .
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Examples
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The name "Lesley Ryder" doesn't scream "Puerto Rican/Mexican," but I assure you, I am very Hispanic.
Lesley Ryder: After Hamilton, Chasing a Dream Lesley Ryder 2011
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The name "Lesley Ryder" doesn't scream "Puerto Rican/Mexican," but I assure you, I am very Hispanic.
Lesley Ryder: After Hamilton, Chasing a Dream Lesley Ryder 2011
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"Well, if anyone else asks you about us, just say we've got a friend staying with us called Lesley, " said Anne.
Five Have Plenty Of Fun Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1955
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While I have no footing to argue with you about Lesley Gore’s version of “He Gives Me Love (La La La)” sank like a stone (because … it did!), I think there’s a flavor of the bombastic in Lesley’s version (including a Spanish-style acoustic guitar) that’s just as present in the Spanish-language original.
Gruesome Twosome: Crazy About The La La La Edition : Scrubbles.net 2006
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A good decision on my part, methinks, and Lesley is really chuffed (me too:)) as it means we'll be seeing a lot of each other IC.
October 17th, 2005 dame_habonde 2005
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Feeling: Red (real name Lesley but she will always be Red to me!) is over visiting from Dubai and came round to our house yesterday along with my friend Bobbie and both their kids.
tequilamonky Diary Entry tequilamonky 2009
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If that's the case I'd do the 9-3 shift but I seem to recall Lesley's husband on the #120 last year as I was going into work and he was getting off to start at the Pizza 5pm shift.
Archive 2006-03-01 E.Jim Shannon 2006
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The singer—let’s call her Lesley, after the recording artist, Lesley Gore, who first made the tune famous—has asked boyfriend Johnny to her party, only for him to vanish with Judy, who, having also been invited, must be a friend.
BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010
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In a moment we’ll examine such Machiavellian behavior with Machiavelli himself, and look at the politics of friendship as described by Montaigne; but first, a word about Lesley’s consternation and grief, about crying at your own party.
BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010
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The singer—let’s call her Lesley, after the recording artist, Lesley Gore, who first made the tune famous—has asked boyfriend Johnny to her party, only for him to vanish with Judy, who, having also been invited, must be a friend.
BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010
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