Haidée

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Etymology[edit]

Coined by Byron for his poem Don Juan (1824).

Proper noun[edit]

Haidée

  1. A female given name originating as a coinage.
    • 1824 Lord Byron, Don Juan/Canto the Second:CXXVIII:
      He had an only daughter, call'd Haidée, / The greatest heiress of the Eastern Isles; / Besides, so very beautiful was she, / Her dowry was as nothing to her smiles:

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