• Harriet

    Pronunciation

    • IPA: /ˈhɛɹiÉ›t/

    Origin

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

    Full definition of Harriet

    Proper noun

    Harriet

    (plural Harriets)
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      • 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.
      • 1995 Elizabeth Wurtzel: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America, Riverhead Books, 1995, ISBN 1573225126, page 14I 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.
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