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  • proper noun A female given name.

Etymologies

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Welsh

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Examples

  • It contained every cliche of Welsh life, up to and including miners marching out of the pit with daffodils in their buttonholes singing "Myfanwy".

    Archive 2005-04-01 2005

  • It contained every cliche of Welsh life, up to and including miners marching out of the pit with daffodils in their buttonholes singing "Myfanwy".

    Shiraz and Chardonnay for all 2005

  • It contained every cliche of Welsh life, up to and including miners marching out of the pit with daffodils in their buttonholes singing "Myfanwy".

    April 2005 2005

  • The Rake's fourth child was named "Myfanwy," which is an Welsh name, which seems to set us firmly in Welch territory.

    OSNews 2009

  • Day 2 at conference; motions will be passed, speeches will be made, among the speakers Myfanwy Davies, Elin Jones, Richard Wyn Jones and the Deputy First Minister.

    Day 2 2009

  • By contrast, in Britten's chamber opera, shaped into a libretto by Myfanwy Piper, these phantoms are clothed with words and raised to life through music.

    The Turn of the Screw; Ariadne auf Naxos; Les pêcheurs de perles; Mitsuko Uchida Fiona Maddocks 2010

  • Catrin Myfanwy Maby, CEO, Severn Wye Energy Agency, for serv the environment and to social equity.

    New Year honours: the full list 2011

  • There's Mog Edwards, the draper in love with Miss Myfanwy Price; Polly Garter, the town prostitute in love with babies; and the formidable Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard, twice widowed, who keeps a boarding house but will not have any guests in it lest they breathe on the furniture.

    A Gloriously Musical Play for Voices Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim 2011

  • Day 2 at conference; motions will be passed, speeches will be made, among the speakers Myfanwy Davies, Elin Jones, Richard Wyn Jones and the Deputy First Minister.

    Archive 2009-09-01 2009

  • On Dafydd Iwan's blog A Bridge to the Future, three of Plaid's prospective parliamentary candidates - Myfanwy Davies, Steffan Lewis and Dafydd Trystan - have pledged their support for Dafydd Iwan in the Party's presidential election:

    Archive 2008-07-01 2008

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  • it might just be Welsh, though

    June 17, 2010