Medora
English edit
Etymology edit
The given name was first used by Lord Byron in The Corsair (1814).
Proper noun edit
Medora
- A female given name.
- 1814, Lord Byron, The Corsair, lines 406–7:
- "But—Oh, Medora! nerve thy gentler heart, / "This hour again—but not for long—we part."
- A town in Indiana.
- A village in Illinois.
- A city, the county seat of Billings County, North Dakota; named for Medora von Hoffmann, wife of the Marquis de Morès, who founded the city.
- A neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky.
- An unincorporated community in Kansas.