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- proper noun A female
given name .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The name Maud sounds old-fashioned and sort of stately, which is charming in view of the freckly, bouncy, red-haired Maud I knew and liked, who had been Northern Illinois Women’s Ping-Pong Champion three years in a row.
Hard Road Barbara D’Amato 2001
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Again Maud rectified the twist with the watch-tackle, and again she lowered away from the windlass.
Chapter 37 2010
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You can learn more in Maud's "canned bio," which also reveals that she was once a lawyer.
Blog Reviews 2005
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‘It may interest you to know that my sister Maud is shortly to be married.’
New Grub Street 2003
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She says it 's selfish; and I don't do it now much, put in Maud, with a virtuous air.
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Fan has been a young lady this two years, and Maud is a spoiled baby.
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Besides, he 's engaged, and does put on such airs, broke in Maud who regarded her brother as a venerable being.
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Tears were in Maud's eyes, and I do believe they were for me.
Chapter 35 1904
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"Maud is not a child now; and this may be my last night –" he stopped, sensitively, at the involuntary foreboding.
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"Maud!" said John, catching her hand as she passed him by – "Maud is not afraid of her father?"
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