Harriet

Etymology
Anglicized form of Henriette, feminine form of Henri ( Henry), popular in England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Proper noun

 * 1) * 1833 Leigh Hunt, A Year of Honey-Moons, Court magazine and monthly, E. Bull 1833, page 33:
 * Harriet, by the way, is a very sprightly name. It is the female of Harry, and is identified in my imagination with I know not what of the power of being lively and saucy, without committing the sweetness of womanhood.
 * 1) * 1995 Elizabeth Wurtzel: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America, Riverhead Books, 1995, ISBN 1573225126, page 14
 * I found myself wanting to explain it to her, this middle-aged woman with the kind of haircut you call a hairdo, which needed to be set in rollers every night, who had a name like Agnes or Harriet, a name that even predated my mother's generation.
 * I found myself wanting to explain it to her, this middle-aged woman with the kind of haircut you call a hairdo, which needed to be set in rollers every night, who had a name like Agnes or Harriet, a name that even predated my mother's generation.

Related terms

 * Hallie
 * Hattie
 * Henrietta
 * Harry
 * Henry

Proper noun

 * 1)  borrowed from.

Proper noun

 * 1)  borrowed from.

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