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- proper noun A female
given name .
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Examples
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Such are those voluminous works, commonly called Romances, namely Clelia, Cleopatra, Astræa, Cassandra, the Grand Cyrus, and innumerable others which contain, as I apprehend, very little instruction or entertainment.
Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations Edmund Spenser 1730
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Churchill (poet) _Clarissa Harlowe_ (Richardson) "Clelia"
English Men of Letters: Crabbe Alfred Ainger 1870
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'Clelia', presently afterwards included in the list of Leonora's books, was another very popular romance by the same authoress, published in 10 volumes, a few years later, immediately translated into English by John Davies, and printed in the usual folio form.
The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695
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He fondly recalls the Via Clelia mantled in snow and then corrects himself: This was the Irish snow of Joyce's "The Dead" lending the street "a luster that would never have existed outside of books"—or in Italy.
Booking a Journey Elizabeth Lowry 2011
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On Wednesday, news circulated about the damage done to Clelia II while it battered 30 foot waves in Argentina's Drake Passage.
WATCH: Wave-Battered Ship Docks In Argentina Kate Auletta 2010
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On Wednesday, news circulated about the damage done to Clelia II while it battered 30 foot waves in Argentina's Drake Passage.
Wave-Battered Cruise Ship Docks In Argentina (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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On Wednesday, news circulated about the damage done to Clelia II while it battered 30 foot waves in Argentina s Drake Passage.
WATCH: Wave-Battered Ship Docks In Argentina Kate Auletta 2010
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On Wednesday, news circulated about the damage done to Clelia II while it battered 30 foot waves in Argentina's Drake Passage.
WATCH: Wave-Battered Ship Docks In Argentina Kate Auletta 2010
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On Wednesday, news circulated about the damage done to Clelia II while it battered 30 foot waves in Argentina's Drake Passage.
WATCH: Wave-Battered Ship Docks In Argentina Kate Auletta 2010
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Clelia had got too close for comfort to questionable transactions entered into by executives at the Anzoategui branch of Banco Guayana and super-rich Manuel Andrade.
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