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Josephine

[joh-zuh-feen, -suh-]

noun

  1. Empress Marie Joséphine Rose Tascher de la Pagerie. Beauharnais, Joséphine de.

  2. a female given name: derived from Joseph.



Josephine

/ ˈdʒəʊzəˌfiːn /

noun

  1. 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)

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Josephinenhütte No. 6 Water Glasses – Hand-made and mouth-blown, the Josephine No. 6 water glasses are beautiful and a great addition to any entertainer’s arsenal.

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"We must show the world that multilateralism is alive," Josephine Moote, permanent representative of the small-island state of Kiribati, told COP30 on Tuesday.

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On “Josephine,” she makes tour life feel like a proverbial grippy-sock vacation to the breakdown ward — “I’m sock-footed, sick and selfish holding strangers’ hands ...

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Moving patients like Josephine to 'at-home chemo' immediately opens up another slot for someone that needs more complex treatment.

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Josephine Hoskins is one of them.

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