| 单词 | maiden name |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmaiden name maiden name n. (also †maiden surname) the name or surname of a woman before taking her husband's surname upon marriage. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [noun] > maiden name maiden name1686 1686 Strange & Wonderful Hist. Mother Shipton 6 The Child..was ordered..to be christned, which was performed by the name of Ursula Soothtell; For the later was her Mothers, and consequently her Maiden surname. 1773 Life N. Frowde 5 I was baptized by her [sc. the mother's] maiden Name Neville. 1862 G. Borrow Wild Wales III. v. 41 I asked her her maiden name. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiii. [Nausicaa] 355 Her maiden name was Jemima Brown And she lived with her mother in Irishtown. 1988 S. Bellow Theft 24 Ithiel's ex-wife..now used her maiden name, Etta Wolfenstein. 2007 S. Fox Etiquette for Dummies viii. 119 If Elaine goes by her maiden name, you use Mr. Bill Smith and Dr. Elaine Cox [in addressing an envelope]. < as lemmas |
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