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  • proper noun A female given name, a variant of Annabel or Annabelle.

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Examples

  • So she called Annabella one day after the shoot was over, and arranged to collect the umbrella.

    Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

  • Also my Dad had a crush on a French film star called Annabella, he was killed in WWII before I was born so wasn't around to pick a name. nel said …

    Discussion Forum - TuDiabetes 2010

  • Also my Dad had a crush on a French film star called Annabella, he was killed in WWII before I was born so wasn't around to pick a name. nel said …

    Discussion Forum - TuDiabetes 2010

  • Humbert's first, lost girlfriend, Annabel, is perhaps not unrelated to Byron's first wife, Anne Isabella, who was known as "Annabella," and she has parents named Leigh, just like Byron's ravished half-sister Augusta.

    Hurricane Lolita 2005

  • Humbert's first, lost girlfriend, Annabel, is perhaps not unrelated to Byron's first wife, Anne Isabella, who was known as "Annabella," and she has parents named Leigh, just like Byron's ravished half-sister Augusta.

    Hurricane Lolita 2005

  • Lemoyne was not "Annabella" herself, but only her chief chum; yet shorter skirts and shorter sleeves and a deliberately assumed feminine air helped distinguish him from the hearty young lads who manoeuvred in the chorus.

    Bertram Cope's Year Henry Blake Fuller 1893

  • She was glad to have no need to do so; Lemoyne was deeply engrossed otherwise -- "Annabella" and her "antics" were almost ready for the public eye.

    Bertram Cope's Year Henry Blake Fuller 1893

  • Bluebottle may possibly symbolize Lord and Lady Holland; and Miss Lilac is, certainly, Miss Milbanke, the "Annabella" of Byron's courtship, not the "moral Clytemnestra" of his marriage and separation.

    The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

  • There was a woman who lived on the street where I grew up who "Annabella" was modeled on.

    Filter Magazine 2009

  • "Your Annabella is a mystery; liking, not liking; generous-minded, yet afraid of poverty; there is no making her out.

    The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

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