Edwina

[ ed-wee-nuh, -win-uh ]

noun

1. a female given name: derived from Edwin.

Example Sentences

The optics, reminiscent of Lord Louis Mountbatten, India’s last viceroy, and his wife Edwina, during the final days of the Raj, drew swift backlash for their jaw-dropping colonial symbolism.

From Time

The Palmer received the boon with another low reverence, and followed Edwina out of the apartment.

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Edwina was played by Mrs. Kean, who was applauded to her heart's content.

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In the long imaginary conversations which he held with her he addressed her as Julia or Edwina.

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The baby was a boy,—fortunately, for I don't admire the name Edwina, and I shouldn't have liked to handicap a child with it.

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