Ouida

[ wee-duh ]

noun

1. pen name of Louise de la Ramée.
2. a female given name.

Ouida

/ ˈwiːdə /

noun

1. Ouida18391908FBritishWRITING: novelist real name Marie Louise de la Ramée . 1839–1908, British popular novelist, best known for Under Two Flags (1867)

Example Sentences

Ouida was a more real, more charitable person than she was given credit for being.

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Ouida had for a long time the same objection to her stories being published piecemeal in newspapers and periodicals.

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But Ouida can relieve the strain she makes upon her readers' feelings only by a profuse display of worldly wisdom.

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But even for the melodrama Ouida, clever as she is, lacks one important element—namely, a sense of humor.

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In a Winter City, again, reeks with fashionable follies and is written in Ouida's most approved worst style.

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