Beatrice
Americannoun
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(in Dante's Vita Nuova andDivine Comedy ) a symbolic figure developed from the person whom Dante first saw as a child and loved as an ideal of womanhood.
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a city in southeastern Nebraska.
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a first name: from a Latin word meaning “one who brings joy.”
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Kaitlyn Hennessy, who filed the complaint with Beatrice Gomberg, acknowledged to The Times that the Bass campaign steered them to the Kaufman Legal Group, which helped prepare the complaint.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
The Mayfair venue, which has hosted Princess Beatrice, Idris Elba and Kim Kardashian, said it would be closed for "a few weeks" while investigations took place.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
Property developer and husband of Princess Beatrice, Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, added: "Wishing you a speedy recovery."
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
“We were afraid it was aliens,” joked Beatrice Bagwell, 74, who lives on a 240-acre Pecan Island compound that has been in the family for four generations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
“But Vicky, Alice, ’Elena, Louise, and Beatrice are the five daughters of the Queen of England.”
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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