Josephine

[ joh-zuh-feen, -suh- ]

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noun

Empress Marie Joséphine Rose Tascher de la Pagerie. Beauharnais, Joséphine de.
a female given name: derived from Joseph.

Josephine

/ ˈdʒəʊzəˌfiːn /

Josephine, Empress17631814FFrenchMISC: wife of Napoleon Empress, previous name Joséphine de Beauharnais; real name Marie Joséphine Tascher de la Pagerie. 1763–1814, empress of France as wife of Napoleon Bonaparte (1796–1809)

Bruce and his wife, Josephine, named their firstborn son after him.

Last summer my daughter, Josephine, and I visited a zoo that houses two wolves, both of which were born in captivity.

Each night, as smoke crept through the cracks of our home, I cradled Josephine’s tiny body and worried about her developing lungs.

Manish Arora's spring/ summer 2014 collection, which showed in Paris on Thursday, was inspired by "Josephine Baker goes raving."

The Daily Pic: Josephine Meckseper plucks her art from our commodity culture.

She sounds grateful for his suggestion that she use milk and apple juice as eye drops for their old English bulldog, Josephine.

The artist Josephine King creates striking paintings inspired by her manic depression.

Josephine was nowhere to be found, so I stepped up, along with my cousins Fernon and Napah.

Especially was this so at the poverty-stricken end, as Josephine Morse called her section of the street.

And you, Josephine, write for him; for they will depend upon his judgment in the choice of the acting qualities of the piece.

She started to her feet and turned her gaze upon the part of the room in which Josephine 92 Morse sat.

No attention was paid to her; and in the midst of the lively conversation, she seized an opportunity to speak aside to Josephine.

Mr. Purcell never noticed her out of the recitation room—Mr. Read was more lofty—Josephine more contemptuous than ever.

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