Gertrude
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Germanic [[ger#Template:gem|gār]], gēr (“spear”) + þrūþ (“strength”) or trut (“maiden, dear”) ; name of a Belgian seventh century saint.
Proper noun [edit]
Gertrude
- A female given name.
- 1594, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: Act IV, Scene V:
- O Gertrude, Gertrude! / When sorrows come, they come not single spies, / But in battalions.
- 1850 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Blessed Damozel, lines 103-108
- "We two," she said, "will seek the groves / Where the lady Mary is, / With her five handmaidens, whose names / Are five sweet symphonies, / Cecily, Gertrude, Magdalen, / Margaret and Rosalys.
- 1594, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: Act IV, Scene V:
