Mathilde
proper nounattested in dialogue
A female given name.
proper noun
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A female given name.
Miss Mathilde Townsend, daughter of the late Richard Townsend and Washington’s great heiress and beauty, is experimenting along a new line to avert nervous prostration and its kindred ills so generally a part of each Washington season as to be taken as a matter of course.
The will of Miss Mathilde M. Dunning, a sister of the late Professor William A. Dunning, for many years on the Faculty of Columbia University as Professor of History and Political Philosophy, was filed for probate yesterday.
After an absence of six years, the former Miss Mathilde McCormick, daughter of Harold F. McCormick and granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller, returned yesterday on the White Star liner Majestic.
Etymology
From French, German, Dutch, Norwegian, and Danish Mathilde, equivalents of Matilda.