charlotte
see also: Charlotte
Pronunciation Noun
Charlotte
Pronunciation
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see also: Charlotte
Pronunciation Noun
charlotte (plural charlottes)
- A dessert consisting of sponge cake fill#Verb|filled with fruit#Noun|fruit, and cream#Noun|cream or custard.
- French: charlotte
- Russian: шарло́тка
Charlotte
Pronunciation
- (America) IPA: /ˈʃɑɹlət/
- (RP, South Africa) IPA: /ˈʃɑːlət/
- (Australia, New Zealand, Boston) IPA: /ˈʃaːlət/
- (Scotland, Ireland) IPA: /ˈʃaɹlət/
- A female given name.
- 1852 D. H. Jacques, A Chapter on Names, The Knickerbocker, or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume XL, August 1852, page 117:
- My Charlotte conquers with a smile, / And reigneth queen of love.
- In the home-circle and among her companions, Charlotte lays aside her queenship and becomes a gentle Lottie.
- 1859 George Eliot, Adam Bede, Chapter VII:
- "Here's Totty! By-and-by, what's her other name? She wasn't christened Totty." "Oh, sir, we call her sadly out of name. Charlotte's her christened name. It's a name i' Mr. Poyser's family; his grandmother was named Charlotte. But we began calling her Lotty, and now it's got to Totty. To be sure it's more like a name for a dog than a Christian child."
- 2007 Sophie Hannah, Hurting Distance, Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN 9780340 937907, page 225:
- 'Can I call you Charlotte?'
- 'No. I hate the name, makes me sound like a Victorian aunt. I'm Charlie, and no, you can't call me that either.'
- 1852 D. H. Jacques, A Chapter on Names, The Knickerbocker, or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume XL, August 1852, page 117:
- A city/county seat in Eaton County, Michigan.
. - A town/county seat in Dickson County, Tennessee.
- University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
- French: Charlotte
- German: Charlotte
- Italian: Carlotta
- Portuguese: Carlota
- Russian: Шарло́тта
- Spanish: Carlota
charlotte (plural charlottes)
- (historical) Designating a type of women's bonnet popular in the 18th and 19th centuries.
- 1764, The Scots Magazine, Sep 1764:
- The Charlotte bonnet, form'd to please, / And Strelitz coif she wore with ease.
- 1819, La Belle Assemblée, Apr 1819:
- the Charlotte bonnet, from the Sorrows of Werther, was the most becoming and elegantly retired bonnet ever yet sported for walking.
- 1968, Gisèle d'Assailly, Ages of Elegance:
- Women now resembled well-rounded cabbages from which protruded a tiny head crushed beneath a Charlotte hat covered with plumes and gew-gaws.
- 1764, The Scots Magazine, Sep 1764:
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