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Cathleen

American  
[kath-leen] / kæθˈlin /

noun

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


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"I've been grinning since Hans arrived," says Cathleen, who paid a four-figure sum for the Austin - including delivery.

From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2026

But distance was no barrier to seller Hans Compter, who travelled half way round the world to personally deliver the vehicle to Cathleen in Orkney.

From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2026

In 1996, David Keating cast her as Cathleen, the boisterous mother to a sullen teenager played by Jared Leto in “The Last of the High Kings.”

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

It was, indeed, the first performance of "The Countess Cathleen," when our stage-pictures were made out of poor conventional scenery and hired costumes, that set meviii writing plays where all would depend upon the player.

From Poems by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

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