Allegra

[ uh-leg-ruh; Italian ahl-le-grah ]

noun

1. a female given name.

Example Sentences

Donatella herself holds a 20 percent share in the company, while her daughter, Allegra Beck, holds a controlling 50 percent.

From The Daily Beast

Yet those fears were borne out when, at the age of five, Allegra died of typhus.

From The Daily Beast

His first wife, Allegra Mostyn-Owen, was one of the most clever (and beautiful) women at Oxford.

From The Daily Beast

Later, we'd grab a coffee by my friends Allegra and Abed's house.

From The Daily Beast

The limping Allegra would have been easy prey—and could still be, even with tug-boat escorts.

From The Daily Beast

For the next week they were in frequent correspondence with Byron on the subject of Allegra.

From Project Gutenberg

Even Clare with all her misery was, in one sense, better off than she, for Allegra lived.

From Project Gutenberg

But when Denny is dead, talk over with Allegra, in her prison, the story of his death—it may divert you both!

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We hoped he would name that stronghold of Allegra's where he would feel safe and when he named this house our hopes leaped.

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They hid the friend of Allegra Alieni behind the window—how shall they tell us her friends are not their friends?

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