Albertine

[ al-ber-teen; French al-ber-teen; German ahl-ber-tee-nuh ]

/ ˈæl bərˌtin; French al bɛrˈtin; German ˌɑl bɛrˈti nə /

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noun

a female given name: derived from Albert.

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Also Al·ber·ti·na

[al-ber-tee-nuh]. /ˌæl bərˈti nə/.

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Her response was a “very un-macho, uncool, and unexciting one,” according to Albertine.
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After growing up in the London projects, Viv Albertine became a guitarist in one of the first all-girl punk bands.
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Albertine was forced to move back in with her mother with no sign of a future career.
A First Lady of Punk Rock Talks|Justin Jones|December 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The Fugitive opens with the flight of the narrator's own obsessive love interest, Albertine.
David's Book Club: The Fugitive|David Frum|January 13, 2013|DAILY BEAST

Albertine was never to him anything more than a means toward the satisfaction of his own needs, ego needs and sensual needs.
David's Book Club: The Fugitive|David Frum|January 13, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Look, Albertine, said he, and with me thank the chance enabling me to do a good turn for one of my brothers.
The Hero of the People|Alexandre Dumas
Gilbert profited by their being so engaged, to carry away Sebastian, guided by Albertine who fastened up the outer door after him.
The Hero of the People|Alexandre Dumas
It was cautiously opened by Albertine, a woman with whom Marat cohabited, and who passed for his wife.
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850.|Various
Albertine came to him and told him that her brother had always spoken with scorn of Robespierre as a man of words.
Lectures on the French Revolution|John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
From the two princes so rescued, descended respectively the Ernestine and the Albertine branches of the Saxon house.
The Public Life of Queen Victoria|John McGilchrist