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"ref": "1830, Mary Russell Mitford, Our Village: Cottage Names",
"text": "Margaret, Marguerite - the pearl! the daisy! Oh name of romance and of minstrelsy, which brings the days of chivalry to mind, and the worship of flowers and ladies fair!",
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"ref": "1868, Bentley's Miscellany, London, page 417",
"text": "Amongst us English, the name is a greater favourite than with any other nation: but we have played upon it, and abused it oftener too. In no language does Margaret sound sweeter or homelier than in ours: not so Mag, Maggie, Meg, Madge, Moggie, Peg, Peggy, and abominable Piggy, of which abridgements only the two first are defensible.",
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"ref": "2012, Louise Erdrich, The Round House, Corsair, published 2013, page 292",
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"word": "Margarida"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "female given name",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Margalida"
},
{
"code": "otw",
"lang": "Ottawa",
"sense": "female given name",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Maagii"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "female given name",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Małgorzata"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "female given name",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Margarida"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "female given name",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Margarete"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "female given name",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Margareta"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "Margaríta",
"sense": "female given name",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Маргари́та"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "Márgarɛt",
"sense": "female given name",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"transliteration"
],
"word": "Ма́ргарет"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "female given name",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Mairead"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "female given name",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Maighread"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "female given name",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Margaréta"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "female given name",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Marjeta"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "female given name",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Margarita"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "female given name",
"word": "Margareta"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "Marharýta",
"sense": "female given name",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Маргари́та"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "Márharet",
"sense": "female given name",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"transliteration"
],
"word": "Ма́ргарет"
},
{
"code": "vec",
"lang": "Venetian",
"sense": "female given name",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Malgarìta"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "female given name",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Marged"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "female given name",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Mererid"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "Māgaretto",
"sense": "moon of Uranus",
"word": "マーガレット"
}
],
"word": "Margaret"
}
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