louise

/luːˈiːz/

name 2

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ADJ.

asymmetrical, happy, intended, musical, new, pretty, stately, untidy

Louise wore a pretty dress to the wedding last Saturday afternoon.

VERB + LOUISE

baptized, isn't, like, name

My daughter isn't louise, but she was named after my grandmother.

LOUISE + NOUN

everybody, mary, reynolds, thy

Louise and Mary went shopping together at the mall last Saturday afternoon.

ADV.

only

Louise only wanted to spend the weekend relaxing at home with her family.

Definitions

name

A female given name from French.

Louise, thy stately name sounds in my ear / Like a sea wave, that gathering, hill on hill, / Upon the blue horizon, smooth and still, / Sweeps to the shore

That's what I baptized her. Mary Louise. Everybody else called her just plain Mary, but that wasn't the way I intended it. I intended it Mary Louise. That's a pretty name, isn't it? Mary Louise. Mary is too...plain?

A municipality of Manitoba, Canada.

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Louise, thy stately name sounds in my ear / Like a sea wave, that gathering, hill on hill, / Upon the blue horizon, smooth and still, / Sweeps to the shore

Wiktionary

That's what I baptized her. Mary Louise. Everybody else called her just plain Mary, but that wasn't the way I intended it. I intended it Mary Louise. That's a pretty name, isn't it? Mary Louise. Mary

Wiktionary

I've always thought I was too large for a soft, musical name like Louise, too untidy.

Wiktionary

Happy New Year, Louise!

Tatoeba · #269365

Audrey Louise Reynolds is an artisan living in Upstate New York.

Tatoeba · #8257456

Louise has traveled a lot for London recently.

Tatoeba · #8305529

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