Lenya

American  

[len-yuh, leyn-] / ˈlɛn jə, ˈleɪn- /

noun

1. Lotte Karoline Blamauer, 1900–81, Austrian actress and singer, in the U.S. after 1935 (wife of Kurt Weill).

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Lenya British  

/ ˈlɛnjə /

noun

1. Lotte (ˈlɒtɪ), original name Caroline Blamauer. 1900–81, Austrian singer and actress, associated esp with the songs of her husband Kurt Weill

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Lenya

Meanwhile, we could do without descriptions of Harry Truman’s attire at Potsdam or what Kurt Weill wrote to Lotte Lenya on V-E Day—a dozen years after the couple fled Europe for show-business success in America.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026

“It’s really just that we got lucky,” said Lenya Quinn-Davidson, a fire adviser for the University of California Cooperative Extension.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 20, 2022

“That’s just depressing,” said Lenya Quinn-Davidson, fire advisor for the University of California Cooperative Extension.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2021

“This is a safe space,” said Lenya Quinn-Davidson, a University of California Cooperative Extension adviser who planned the event.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 19, 2016

The orchestra had a dance-band lineup and the singer-actors, among whom was Weill's wife Lotte Lenya, could not have sounded less like opera stars.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 18, 2013