Angelica
proper nounattested in dialogue
A female given name from Italian.
proper noun
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A female given name from Italian.
Look to the bak'd meats, good Angelica, / Spare not for cost.
Angelica Ferrara, lead author of the paper and postdoctoral scholar at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University, says her preliminary research suggests that some women may spend several hours a week managing the emotional and social well-being of the men in their lives.
Etymology
Church Italian Angelica, from Latin angelica or a Latinate elaboration of Angela. Name of a heroine in Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (1516).