• Roxane

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    Full definition of Roxane

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    Roxane

    (plural Roxanes)
    1. borrowed from the French form of Roxana.
      • 1897 Edmond Rostand: Cyrano de Bergerac (1923 translation by Brian Hooker):Your name is like a golden bellHung in my heart; and when I think of you,I tremble, and the bell swings and rings - "Roxane!""Roxane!"...along my veins, "Roxane!"----
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