Bette

[ bet-ee, bet ]

noun

1. a female given name, form of Elizabeth.

Example Sentences

Bette Midler recorded Ian’s song “Some People’s Lives,” the title track of Bette’s Grammy-winning 1991 album.

From Washington Blade

Celine, Bette, Manilow, Cirque du Soleil and, now, Britney and Olivia.

From The Daily Beast

However, Bette never went to the Washington state web site to check out all the options available to her.

From The Daily Beast

Bette would “have no choice” but to pay the extra, socialistic freight.

From The Daily Beast

Bette Midler sang "Wind Beneath My Wings" in honor of those who died this year.

From The Daily Beast

Bette Midler will be making her first on-stage Oscars appearance.

From The Daily Beast

It was evident that fleet as La Bette might be, Fatima was far fleeter.

From Project Gutenberg

I asked him one day if he remembered the terrible passage about those "eunuchs of art" in "La Cousine Bette."

From Project Gutenberg

Balzac, in his “Cousine Bette,” says that there is no stronger passion than the love of one woman for another.

From Project Gutenberg

The most repugnant detail of this unfortunate woman's case Balzac utilized not long afterwards in his Cousin Bette.

From Project Gutenberg

Bette is the poor relation who, unlike Pons, revenges herself for her humiliations and the insults bestowed on her.

From Project Gutenberg