Constantia

plural Constantias

1. countableuncountableA kind of wine, either white or red, from Constantia in Cape Colony.

1. A female given name from Latin, of rare usage.

   And his wife, Constantia B. Latham, is one of Duncan’s four special assistants, for which she is paid $109,000 a year.

   2004 March 7, Matthew Mosk, “WSSC Contract to Review Diversity Plagued by Allegations of Patronage”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Dec 2022

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   Miss Constantia Elizabeth Pleasants, daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth W. Pleasants of Wynnewood and of Dr. Henry Pleasants of West Chester, was married this afternoon to Nathaniel Bowditch, son of Mrs. Henry Ingersoll Bowditch of Jamaica Plain, Mass., and the late Dr. Bowditch.

   1938 October 16, “Bowditch-Pleasants”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC

   Mrs. Smith Hommann of this place has announced the engagement of her daughter, Miss Constantia H. Hommann, to Gary Nathan Calkins Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Calkins of Scarsdale and Wood’s Hole, Mass.

   1940 May 10, “Hommann--Calkins”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC

2. A town and census-designated place therein, in Oswego County, New York, United States.