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- proper noun A female
given name .
Etymologies
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Examples
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EVANGELINE taking a deep breath: Professor Trendee gave Evangeline an assignment.
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EVANGELINE taking a deep breath: Professor Trendee gave Evangeline an assignment.
All My Alienated Academics: A Soap Opera in Five Installments (1) 2007
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A new volume of poems, by the author of "Evangeline," is fair matter for congratulation.
Current Literature 1863
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After spending a few days in Evangeline's country, about which Longfellow's beautiful poem has woven a spell of enchantment, Miss Sullivan and I went to Halifax, where we remained the greater part of the summer.
The Story of My Life Annie Sullivan 1905
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Today a major tourist attraction in St. Martinville, Evangeline's statue was posed for by Dolores Del Rio herself, and donated to the town, giving new dimension to the very meaning of the name Evangeline: good news.
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One thing Longfellow has certainly omitted in "Evangeline" -- the wild flowers of Acadia.
Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses Frederic S. Cozzens
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There he will gain Evangeline’s magnetic powers for three minutes.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Faraway Soul’s Review Forum 2009
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She quickly produced a series of light, frothy peeks into high society that proved successful with the public – The Vicissitudes of Evangeline, a series of vignettes detailing a young debutante’s observations of the love affairs of high society, which scandalized the reading public not by its subject, but by a scene where Evangeline is described as becoming in her lingerie!
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In the next mission, set in New York, Evangeline is paired with Riley, who is feeling like an idiot (Evangeline thinks he’s an idiot too)
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Faraway Soul’s Review Forum 2009
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Today a major tourist attraction in St. Martinville, Evangeline's statue was posed for by Dolores Del Rio herself, and donated to the town, giving new dimension to the very meaning of the name Evangeline: good news.
Six degrees of separation: how a Mexican star became a Cajun legend 2009
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