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Georgiana, AL -- U.S. town in Alabama
Population (2000): 1737
Housing Units (2000): 829
Land area (2000): 6.264848 sq. miles (16.225881 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 6.264848 sq. miles (16.225881 sq. km)
FIPS code: 29560
Located within: Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
Location: 31.640087 N, 86.739442 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 36033
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Georgiana

Georgiana is a Catalan, English, Greek and Romanian name. It is the feminine form of the male name George and a variation of the female names Georgina and Georgia. It comes from the Greek word Γεωργιος, meaning farmer.

Georgiana (disambiguation)

Georgiana is a given name.

Georgiana may also refer to:

Georgiana (beetle)

Georgiana xanthomelaena is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae, the only species in the genus Georgiana.

Georgiana (side-wheeler)

Georgiana, a small side-wheel steamboat made in Philadelphia in 1849, one of the first on the waters of the Mokelumne River, Sacramento, San Joaquin and Tuolumne Rivers of California.

Usage examples of "georgiana".

My share of the gayety consisted in witnessing the daily appareling of Eliza and Georgiana, and seeing them descend to the drawing-room dressed out in thin muslin frocks and scarlet sashes, with hair elaborately ringleted, and afterward in listening to the sound of the piano or harp played below, to the passing to and fro of the butler and footman, to the jingling of glass and china as refreshments were handed, to the broken hum of conversation as the drawing-room doors opened and closed.

From every enjoyment I was, of course, excluded: my share of the gaiety consisted in witnessing the daily apparelling of Eliza and Georgiana, and seeing them descend to the drawing-room, dressed out in thin muslin frocks and scarlet sashes, with hair elaborately ringletted.

Georgiana, as she read, reverenced Aylmer, and loved him more profoundly than ever, but with a less entire dependence on his judgment than heretofore.

For instance, you say you gave Georgiana her conge this morning, yet only a day or so ago you told me how much you loved her.

He had to step quickly aside as Georgiana swept in, her midnight blue cloak parting to reveal an exceedingly decollete damson satin gown beneath.

I asked soon, looking calmly at Georgiana, who thought fit to bridle at the direct address, as if it were an unexpected liberty.

Georgiana would chatter nonsense to her canary bird by the hour, and take no notice of me.

For his own safety, Rayford had told him only to fly Marcel and Georgiana to a Kankakee, Illinois, airstrip and that he would meet George there.

He was close enough to be with Sylvie and Lucien on long weekends, and sometimes with his aunt Georgiana, for whom his sister was named, in Boston.