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Ouida

American  
[wee-duh] / ˈwi də /

noun

  1. pen name of Louise de la Ramée.

  2. a female given name.


Ouida British  
/ ˈwiːdə /

noun

  1. real name Marie Louise de la Ramée . 1839–1908, British popular novelist, best known for Under Two Flags (1867)

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Among them was Ouida Garrett, 87, married 64 years to Leonard, 90, a retired Boeing computer programmer.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 1, 2018

Stuffed birds under glass bells no longer sit on modern mantelpieces, and the 47 books of Ouida no longer stand between ebony bookends.

From Time Magazine Archive

This memoir begins in the breathless manner of a modern Ouida.

From Time Magazine Archive

The trouble for any reader who tackles her today is that Ouida usually wrote with a perfume atomizer about aristocratic characters now very nearly extinct.

From Time Magazine Archive

Why, you're thinking of ages ago, or Ouida, or something.

From The Twelfth Hour by Leverson, Ada