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Cathleen

American  
[kath-leen] / kæθˈlin /

noun

  1. a female given name, Irish form of Catherine.


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"Parakeet is not a good word round here in Inverness," said local resident Cathleen MacKinnon.

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026

"I thought it was too good to be true and it must be fake," Cathleen said.

From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2026

Although Keating and his other main star, Gabriel Byrne, wrote it as an Irish coming-of-age story, O’Hara’s Cathleen runs off with the movie.

From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2026

The secretly taped footage “was like looking into the Holocaust,” she told interviewer Cathleen Rountree in 1998.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2025

Thus Cathleen lost by barefaced robbery much of what she still possessed of flocks and herds, of scanty fruit and corn.

From Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race by M. I. (Maud Isabel) Ebbutt

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