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- A female given name originating as a coinage.
Once the students were inside, special education teacher Marionetta Lofton made sure they followed the dress code.
2002 October 26, Nancy Trejos, Brigid Schulte, “Open Windows, Happy Cheers”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Feb 20262 more examples
“Nightmare Abbey” is an excellent example of this satire. Here we find the melancholic Scythrop Glowry, a fictional figure in which the poet Shelley is thinly disguised, torn between two fair maidens, Marionetta and Celinda.
1925 February 22, “In Thomas Love Peacock the Plot Does Not Matter […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLCHe was born seventy years ago in East Portchester, the son of the late William Knapp Mead and Marionetta Crawford Mead.
1931 September 4, “Warren Crawford Mead. New Haven Railroad Trainman Dies Suddenly at Station.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC
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Marionetta. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Marionetta
“Marionetta.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Marionetta. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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