Crossword clues for colleen
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Colleen \Col*leen"\, n. [Ir. cailin.] A girl; a maiden. [Anglo-Irish]
Of all the colleens in the land
Sweet Mollie is the daisy.
--The Century.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fem. proper name, from Irish cailin "girl," diminutive of caile "girl, woman."
Wiktionary
n. 1 girl 2 young single woman
WordNet
n. an Irish girl
Wikipedia
Colleen or Cécile Schott (born 1976) is a composer of electronic and ambient music based in France.
Colleen is a common English language name of Irish origin and a generic term for Irish women or girls, from the Irish cailín (caile, countrywoman). It may also refer to:
Colleen is a 1936 Warner Bros. musical film directed by Alfred E. Green. It stars Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, and Joan Blondell.
The Colleen is a one-design wooden sailing keelboat originally designed for sailing in Dublin Bay, Ireland.
The class was intended to fit into the Dublin Bay Sailing Club's grouping of classes, as Class 'B'. This was a replacement of the half and one raters. It was felt that a One-Design would ensure that boats did not become outdated within a short number of years.
It was designed for the Dublin Bay Sailing Club in 1896 by James E. Doyle, one of Kingstown's leading yacht designers and builders.
The Colleen is a half decked gaff rigged centreboard day boat with the centreboard case fixed externally under the boat.
The class stopped sailing in Dublin Bay in the early 1900s. After class racing finished in Dublin Bay many of the boats were shipped out to Argentina where the class thrived into the 1960s. Many of the Argentinian boats were renamed with stone names.
Yachting historian Hal Sisk built the replica "Colleen Bawn" in 2003 - in glass-reinforced plastic.
Colleen is an album by Colleen Hewett, released in 1983.
Colleen was a rowboat used on Okanagan Lake in British Columbia, Canada in the late 1800s and early 1900s. She belonged to the Reverend Thomas Greene and served many early settlers and pioneers of the Okanagan, including W. D. Walker and Thomas Ellis, the earliest European settler in Penticton, British Columbia.
Usage examples of "colleen".
If a young bachelor only talks sensible to a sensible colleen he has a good chanst to stay a bachelor.
Colleen told him she knew the bookers and offered to work it out for him.
Generally the Lewises had better control of their dog, though, Colleen thought.
He and Colleen were meeting Fallon and Duncan in New York at the end of August for a big meeting scheduled with Tribeca Productions.
Stand-Up Sit Down show, Colleen told him she knew the bookers and offered to work it out for him.
Colleen needed an ally, someone to commiserate with and share her outrage.
Harlan had first told her that Dana was pregnant, Colleen felt mixed emotions.
Even before she had come to live with her and Harlan, Colleen often had had serious and intimate discussions with Dana about boys and romance.
To Colleen, when she drove through the village and saw the dark windows and empty streets, it appeared as though the world around her had gone into hibernation.
She wore a bright red cotton nightgown, one that Harlan had just bought for her, at her request, which was something Colleen thought was odd, since she knew Dana wasn't very fond of red, especially bright red.
Dana squeezed Colleen's hand for emphasis and looked so directly and so hard into her face that Colleen blushed.
The night after their baby's death and the subsequent adoption, Harlan had told Colleen all of it, and Colleen remembered thinking what it would have been like for Dana to come home without a child and confront that crib.
Now, with Harlan downstairs cooking Dana's supper, Colleen expected they would have one of their intimate conversations.
The action caught Dana's attention, and she spun around to confront Colleen in the bedroom doorway.
She snapped on the overhead light fixture and the room exploded in a hot, overwhelming brightness that made Colleen shade her eyes and squint.