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Proper noun
Daphnë
- Alternative spelling of Daphne
- 1634: John Milton, Comus, lines 678–681
- Nay, lady, sit. If I but wave this wand,
- Your nerves are all chain’d up in alabaster,
- And you a statue, or, as Daphnë was,
- Root-bound, that fled Apollo.