Meanings
- A unisex given name from French.
- - - homecoming weekend at Colgate was frat parties like this, wild earsplitting drunken and not for sensitive girls like Camille, even her name was sensitive, delicate, Camille was to Lionel the most beautiful name he'd ever spoken, like music, - - -
2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age: A Romance, Fourth Estate, published 2002, →ISBN, page 88 - figurativelyA courtesan (from the English translations of La Dame aux Camélias)
Larry went about alternately urging Margo to disguise herself as a peasant and fly to Peter’s arms, or to stop behaving like Camille.
1956, Gerald Durrell, chapter 12, in My Family and Other Animals, London: Penguin, page 172
Origin
- FrenchCamille“Camilla”
- EnglishCamille
From French Camille (“Camilla”). Doublet of Camilla.
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Camille. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Camille
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