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Guendolen

  1. A female given name from Welsh, variant of Gwendolen.
    • 1892, Robert Grant, The Reflections of a Married Man, Scribner, page 101:
      "I am quite aware," she added, "that we shall be in a certain sense gambling with a conscipious, individualizing name, for she may grow up commonplace-looking or a fright; but we must take some chances in life, mustn't we, Fred?"
      "Either Rosamond, Eleanor, or Guendolen is appropriate for a beauty," said I, with non-committal subserviency,