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n. (given name female from=Latin)
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Clarinda
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Clarinda may refer to:
As a given name:
- Clarinda (poet), a Peruvian poet who wrote in the early 17th century
- Clarinda Sinnige (born 1973), former field hockey goalkeeper from the Netherlands
- Clarinda, name given by Scottish poet Robert Burns to Agnes Maclehose (1758–1841)
- Clarinda, a major character in The Virtuoso, a play first produced in 1676
- Clarinda, a major character in The Lovers' Progress, an early 17th-century play
- Clarinda, a character in The Deserving Favourite, another early 17th-century play
- Clarinda, a character in the play The Sea Voyage, licensed for performance in 1622
Places:
- Clarinda, Victoria, a suburb of the Australian city of Melbourne
- Clarinda, Iowa, a city and county seat in the United States
- Clarinda, Alberta, an unincorporated community in Canada
Other uses:
- USS Clarinda (SP-185), later YP-185, a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1930
Clarinda was the pen name used by an anonymous Peruvian poet, generally assumed to be a woman, who wrote in the early 17th Century. The only work attributed to her is the long poem Discourse in Praise of Poetry (Discurso en loor de la poesía), which was printed in Seville in 1608. She is one of very few female, Spanish-speaking colonial-period poets whose work has not been lost. Thus, she is often read in partnership with Mexico's Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and fellow Peruvian "Amarilis", whose identity is also uncertain.
Usage examples of "clarinda".
Shortly after, Miss Crotchet and Lady Clarinda, who had breakfasted by themselves, made their appearance at the same spot, hanging each on an arm of Lord Bossnowl, who very much preferred their company to that of the philosophers, though he would have preferred the company of the latter, or any company to his own.
The interchange of salutations between Lady Clarinda and the Captain was accompanied with an amiable confusion on both sides, in which the observant eyes of Miss Crotchet seemed to read the recollection of an affair of the heart.
The Captain took his portfolio under his right arm, his camp stool in his right hand, offered his left arm to Lady Clarinda, and followed at a reasonable distance behind Miss Crotchet and Lord Bossnowl, contriving, in the most natural manner possible, to drop more and more into the rear.
Well, Lady Clarinda, I will not be angry, amusing as it may be to you: I listen more in sorrow than in anger.
Crotchet would give his arm to Lady Clarinda, an arrangement with which the Captain could not interfere.
Lady Clarinda had assured him that he was an enthusiastic lover of Greek poetry.
And next to him again is the beautiful, the accomplished, the witty, the fascinating, the tormenting, Lady Clarinda, who traduces herself to the said Captain by assertions which it would drive him crazy to believe.
Miss Crotchet at the piano, Lady Clarinda at the harp, playing and occasionally singing, at the suggestion of Mr.
Captain was performing the same office for Lady Clarinda, but with so much more attention to the lady than the book, that he often made sad work with the harmony, by turnover two leaves together.
The Captain omitted no opportunity of pressing his suit on Lady Clarinda, but could never draw from her any reply but the same doctrines of worldly wisdom, delivered in a tone of badinage, mixed with a certain kindness of manner that induced him to hope she was not in earnest.
At length he lighted on an announcement of the approaching marriage of Lady Clarinda Bossnowl with Mr.
Miss Crotchet had become Lady Bossnowl, but Lady Clarinda had not yet changed her name to Crotchet.
Lady Clarinda, being prevailed on to take the harp in her turn, sang the following stanzas.
Edmond had told the footmen on guard to ignore anything Clarinda said or promised on penalty of a prompt discharge from service and the pain of a sound thrashing that he would administer personally.