Pamela
Proper noun
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Proper noun
- A female given name.
- 1773 Henry Fielding, The History and Adventures of Joseph Andrews, page 259:
- They lived about thirty miles from the Squire; and she told me, that I might be sure to find her out by one circumstance; for that they had a daughter with a very strange name, Pamĕla, or Pamēla; some pronounced it one way, and some the other.
- 1786 Samuel Richardson, ''Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded, page 416:
- - But, Pamela, did you say? - A queer sort of name! - I've heard of it somewhere! - Is it a Christian or a Pagan name? - Linsey-woolsey - half one, half t'other - like thy girl - Ha, ha, ha.'
- 1773 Henry Fielding, The History and Adventures of Joseph Andrews, page 259:
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