Deirdre

alternative Derdriu · alternative Dierdre

1. Irishhuman sciencesThe foremost tragic heroine in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology.
2. A female given name from Irish.

   His daughter was called Deirdre, a good Irish name, but now she signed herself Dee, and her man friend was called Fox.

   1996, Maeve Binchy, This Year It Will Be Different: A Christmas Treasury, Hachette UK, published 2008, →ISBN

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   Deirdre, it seemed to him, was the most beautiful name in the world. But Mrs. Stanley had different views on nomenclature. She had never, she declared, heard so utterly preposterous a name. […]"Theatre and saltpetre are both spelt that way, Arthur; depend upon it, it is Deirder - a sort of peasant name like Darby and Biddy, a corruption of something else."

   1885, Frances Mabel Robinson, Mr. Butler's Ward, Vizetelly, page 95