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Marcella

fem. proper name, Latin, fem. of Marcellus.

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Marcella

Marcella is an Italian given name, the feminine version of Marcello (Mark in English). Marcella means warlike, martial, and strong. It could also mean 'young warrior'. The origin of the name Marcella is Latin.

Notable people called Marcella:

  • Saint Marcella
  • Saint Markella
  • Marcella Albani, Italian actress
  • Marcella Althaus-Reid, Argentinian Methodist theologian and author
  • Marcella Bella, Italian singer
  • Marcella Detroit, American singer, musician, songwriter
  • Marcella Hazan, culinary writer, expert on Italian cooking
  • Claudia Marcella, the name of two nieces of the Roman emperor Augustus
  • Marcella Raggedy Ann, owner of Raggedy Anne and Andy dolls
Marcella (song)

"Marcella" is a song written by Brian Wilson, Tandyn Almer and Jack Rieley for the American rock band The Beach Boys about a massage therapist. It was released on their 1972 album Carl and the Passions – "So Tough". It is the last song to feature Bruce Johnston during his original tenure in the band.

Marcella (album)

Marcella is the debut studio album by British-based American musician Marcy Levy, who in her later career would perform under the name Marcella Detroit.

Marcella (novel)

Marcella is a novel by Mary Augusta Ward, first published in 1894.

Marcella (TV series)

Marcella is a British crime noir detective series produced, written and directed by Hans Rosenfeldt, a Swedish screenwriter and creator of the series The Bridge (adapted as The Tunnel for British audiences). The series began airing on ITV from 4 April until 17 May 2016. Episodes are available on Netflix worldwide outside the UK and Ireland after it airs on ITV.

Usage examples of "marcella".

Marcella led the would-be anecdotist to the punch-bowl, and, under the cover of operations there, spoke to her in an undertone.

Marcella and Victor called out the names of every fish in sight, about fifty in all: iridescent sardines and anchovies flashing silver and turquoise, flying fish with pointed beaks and snails creeping nowhere in their glossy spotted shells, tiny gray shrimp jumping like crickets and huge blue shrimp too stately to move, clams with shells bearing Navajo designs and scallops as small as aspirins, delicate flatfish for grilling or frying and bony striped fish for soup or risotto, diamond-shaped turbot and broad fans of skate, ink-stained cuttlefish, octopus, squid.

Marcella Hazan and her husband had come down from Venice and Giuliano Bugialli drove down after his cooking class in Florence had finished for the week.

Marcella cooked the little clams for the spaghettini and the vegetables for the monk-fish, a savory recipe from her third book.

Inside the living room, Marcella offered Rae a dainty dessert plate upon which a rectangular cut of tiramisu had been placed.

Marcella Eubanks did cry on the way home and had to put down her green barege veil.

But they did need places to turn and park cars, and for the athletic like Marcella, chain their bicycles in elegantly disguised sheds.

Tom, who wondered if his father had any idea at all of the years spent having to work night after long night in bars to make the fees for catering college, to borrow huge sums of money for the company, to ask people to be guarantors for the loan, to look at Marcella and know that she was the most beautiful person on earth, and surely someone with style and class would take her away from him.

She had asked everything about his father and nothing at all about Marcella, who had left him, had refused to accept his calls into Haywards and had not even come back to collect her clothes.

Marcella had taken two days off work and arrived home with a selection of Haywards garments for both of them.

Marcella parroting it all and talking about the opportunity of modelling across the water.

Joe might be right, that Marcella was far too old even to think about beginning a modelling career.

Marcella still worked in the nail salon, or if she had already gone across the water to start working on this new modelling contract that she had earned herself.

Valdir-Lewis Lanart-Ridenow, by my lawful wife di catenas, Marcella Ridenow.

Marcella was continually bailing him out of jail and taking him home to their Brooklyn Heights apartment, where she would stroke his battered head as he whimpered for his dead father.