Dora

[dawr-uh, dohr-uh]

noun

1. a female given name: from a Greek word meaning “gift.”

Example Sentences

“New Grub Street” is just as crowded as most Victorian novels, and Gissing drew its women—Reardon’s wife, Amy, who loves his work but cannot abide his penury; Milvain’s sister, Dora, a prototype of the emancipated woman that would soon lead to suffragism—with unusual care and insight.

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“Luxury now is about going beyond clothes and accessories — it’s about connecting customers to a world they can step into,” says Dora Fung, editor in chief of 10 Magazine USA, an independent luxury publication.

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And “Liberation” unsurprisingly includes observations that seem a little dust-covered, as when the newly enlightened Dora reflects, “Once it has occurred to you that you might be an equal human being it’s very hard to put that genie back in the bottle.”

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While there, Mackey accidentally walks in on two older men receiving massages from younger women, one of whom is a tearful Dora, detained in the raid that took place earlier in the episode.

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Mackey is hired with alarming speed and proceeds to go on his first raid, targeting a “Dora the Explorer” live show, which has a not-so-intimidating audience of young children and abuelitas.

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