Arlene
proper nounattested in dialogue
A female given name originating as a coinage.
proper noun
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A female given name originating as a coinage.
Mama hated her own name, Arlene. "Arlene, Marlene, Darlene, they're all hayseed names," she deplored. Even more than Arlene, she hated Lena, which she'd been called in school, growing up.
Etymology
A nineteenth-century coinage probably based on similar-sounding names such as Charlene and Arlette.
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