Josephine

[joh-zuh-feen, -suh-]

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noun

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

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Contemporary Examples

Manish Arora's spring/ summer 2014 collection, which showed in Paris on Thursday, was inspired by "Josephine Baker goes raving."
Paris's Craziest Show Yet: Manish Arora Spring/ Summer 2014
Liza Foreman
September 26, 2013
The Daily Pic: Josephine Meckseper plucks her art from our commodity culture.
Magpie Loose in a Car Dealership
Blake Gopnik
July 17, 2013
She sounds grateful for his suggestion that she use milk and apple juice as eye drops for their old English bulldog, Josephine.
Alla Bout, ‘Merchant of Death’ Viktor Bout’s Wife, Fights to Free Him
Anna Nemtsova
September 29, 2012
The artist Josephine King creates striking paintings inspired by her manic depression.
Josephine King Connects Madness and Art in London
Casey Schwartz
May 1, 2012
Josephine was nowhere to be found, so I stepped up, along with my cousins Fernon and Napah.
My Vanished Liberia
Leymah Gbowee
October 7, 2011

Historical Examples

The words were not more agreeable to me than they had been to Josephine.
Tales And Novels, Volume 8 (of 10)
Maria Edgeworth
All I could do was to blame Josephine for being a French woman.
Tales And Novels, Volume 8 (of 10)
Maria Edgeworth
"This is what I would have kept from you, Josephine," he said quietly.
Bride of the Mistletoe
James Lane Allen
"Josephine will not be sorry to leave it," said Gabriac, after a short silence.
Sir Jasper Carew
Charles James Lever
"But I don't wonder at it in the least," said Josephine, boldly.
Barrington
Charles James Lever

British Dictionary definitions for josephine

Josephine

noun

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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Word Origin and History for josephine

Josephine

fem. proper name, from French Jósephine, fem. of Joseph. Another feminized form of it is Josepha.

Josephine

Examples from the Web for josephine

Contemporary Examples

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.

Historical Examples

The words were not more agreeable to me than they had been to Josephine.

All I could do was to blame Josephine for being a French woman.

"This is what I would have kept from you, Josephine," he said quietly.

"Josephine will not be sorry to leave it," said Gabriac, after a short silence.

"But I don't wonder at it in the least," said Josephine, boldly.

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