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Ethel [eth-uh l] Examples noun
- a female given name: from a Germanic word meaning “noble.”
Examples from the Web for ethel Contemporary Examples of ethel
In 1919, Ethel Parsons and Telfor Paullin made a painting that lifts hearts and souls, just by being fine art.
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Blake Gopnik
December 23, 2013
So welcome back, Edna and Ethel; come on down, Gertrude and Percy; walk right in, Wilhelmina and Wolfgang.
Linda Rosenkrantz & Pamela Redmond Satran
December 6, 2013
The elevator descended with a draft,” he writes, “chilling Ethel in all the damp spots.
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Andrew Romano
November 30, 2013
In 1960, she made her Broadway debut in Gypsy, opposite Ethel Merman.
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Marlow Stern
November 15, 2013
Lucy and Ethel wish to go to a nightclub, while Ricky and Fred would rather go see a fight.
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Chancellor Agard
October 19, 2013
Historical Examples of ethel
It was hard to meet Ethel—and Milly and Mrs. Baker afterwards.
Harriet Stark
I would have been glad, for Ethel is a dear child, and I had given you sorrow enough.
Harriet Stark
“You have got to thank me for it all, Jimmy,” Ethel said, when he came to her for congratulations.
Stanley Portal Hyatt
They all belonged to the dream, even Ethel, and now he had got back to the reality.
Stanley Portal Hyatt
There was no hurry, Ethel had told him so frankly, no other suitor being in the running.
Stanley Portal Hyatt
Word Origin and History for ethel Ethel
fem. proper name, originally a shortening of Old English Etheldred, Ethelinda, etc., in which the first element means “nobility.”