Louise

proper noun

1. 1

   A female given name from French.

   Louise, thy stately name sounds in my ear / Like a sea wave, that gathering, hill on hill, / Upon the blue horizon, smooth and still, / Sweeps to the shore

   That's what I baptized her. Mary Louise. Everybody else called her just plain Mary, but that wasn't the way I intended it. I intended it Mary Louise. That's a pretty name, isn't it? Mary Louise. Mary is too...plain?

   I've always thought I was too large for a soft, musical name like Louise, too untidy.

2. 2

   A municipality of Manitoba, Canada.