Meanings
- A female given name from French.
Mrs. Marcelline Hemingway Sanford, lecturer, writer and sister of the late Ernest Hemingway, died today in Bon Secours Hospital, Grosse Point.
1963 December 10, “Marcelline Sanford, Writer and Hemingway’s Sister”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC2 more examples
The marriage of Marcelline Eugenie Thomson and David Livingstone Duffy took place yesterday at the New York home of the Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Philip T. Zabriskie, where Dr. Zabriskie performed the Episcopal ceremony. The bride, a daughter of Mrs. Lionel L. Roerkohl of La Crosse, Wis., and the late Mr. Roerkohl, graduated from Manhattanville College and did graduate work in Middle East area studies at New York University.
1986 September 28, “Marcelline Thomson Wed to David Duffy”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015“A lot of it could be politically motivated,” said a poll respondent, Marcelline Farris, 47, a nurse in Lenore, W. Va., who is a Democrat.
1998 September 16, Richard L. Berke, Janet Elder, “Keep Clinton in Office, Most Say in Poll, but His Image is Eroding”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Jan 1999
Origin
- FrenchMarcelline
- EnglishMarcelline
From French Marcelline.
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