Dagmar

[dag-mahr]

noun

1. a female given name: from Danish, meaning “day” and “glory.”

Example Sentences

Gene Zilinskas, a retired sonar engineer, is 85 and his wife Dagmar, a former art teacher, is 93.

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But as Dagmar Rösler, head of the Swiss teachers' association, told Swiss media, "We can't do all our classes in the swimming pool – we've got things we need to teach."

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Poland-based filmmaker Magnus von Horn tells the story of Danish baby killer Dagmar Overbye through the eyes of a desperate mother.

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But when he was approached to direct a film about Dagmar Overbye, a Danish woman who killed at least nine babies in the 1910s, he reconsidered, centering “The Girl With the Needle” on a desperate mother seeking adoption services rather than on the killer herself.

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“I think most people in Denmark know about Dagmar and the true crime that inspired us to write about this. But no one outside Denmark,” Von Horn says.

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