Joan

[ john ]

/ dʒoʊn /

noun

Fair Maid of Kent, 1328–85, wife of Edward, the Black Prince, and mother of Richard II.

a fictitious female pope about a.d. 855–858.

a female given name.

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I first read Joan Didion in my early 20s, and that totally changed everything.
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And Lady Joan soon found that she was not in a set that troubled itself much about the suffering poor.
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The distress in Joan's face was like that which one sees in the face of a dumb animal that has received a mortal hurt.
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Joan was not one to invite a warm affection in another woman at the outset.
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When she stood before others, they saw Joan of Arc, but he saw France.
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Joan had never seen him appear like this, and she shrank as from another and forbidding side of the man.
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British Dictionary definitions for joan

Joan

/ (dʒəʊn) /

noun

known as the Fair Maid of Kent. 1328–85, wife of Edward the Black Prince; mother of Richard II

Pope legendary female pope, first mentioned in the 13th century: said to have been elected while disguised as a man and to have died in childbirth

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