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Jemima

[juh-mahy-muh]

noun

  1. a female given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “dove.”



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She then married financier Sir James Goldsmith and they had three children: Jemima, Zac and Ben Goldsmith.

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Jemima is the former wife of Imran Khan, an international cricketer who served as prime minister of Pakistan from 2018 to 2022.

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In an interview with The New York Times, Dora Charles, one of Deen’s restaurant employees, alleges that Deen asked her and another longtime employee “to dress in an old-style Aunt Jemima outfit.”

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Another woman, who we're calling Jemima, says on a recent hen weekend, she had to contribute to a central kitty for bars - even though she doesn't drink.

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“Aunt Jemima, the Indian lady on the Land O’Lakes butter, the Redskins, the Cleveland Indians… Look what they took from us. Never again, never again.”

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