Candy
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A pet form of the female given name Candace or Candice.
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A pet form of the female given name Candace or Candice.
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storicoThe Mediterranean island of Crete.
Assure thy selfe that as for me I never will agree That Candie Joves owne foster place (as long as I there raigne) Shall unto such a monstruous Wight a Harbrow place remaine.
Orsino, this is that Antonio That took the Phoenix and her fraught from Candy; And this is he that did the Tiger board, When your young nephew Titus lost his leg:
c. 1619, John Ford (formerly attributed to Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher), The Laws of Candy, Act I, Scene 2, […] if to renown Your honours through the world, to fix your names, Like Blazing stars admir’d, and fear’d by all That have but heard of Candy or a Cretan, Be to deserve the approvement of my man-hood, Then thus much have I done:
CRETE, or Candy, as at present call’d, was taken by the Turks from the Possession of the brave Venetians, who defended it some Years against a constant Siege, and made the Place a bloody Purchase to the Turkish Army:
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From Venetan and Latin Candia, from Ancient Greek Χάνδαξ (Khándax) or Χάνδακας (Khándakas), from Arabic رَبْض الخَنْدَق (rabḍ al-ḵandaq) (in particular Arabic خَنْدَق (ḵandaq), borrowed from Middle Persian *handag (whence Classical Persian هندک (handak, “moat”))), name of the Cretan city of Heraklion under the Emirate of Crete.
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storicoThe Kingdom of Kandy on the island now known as Sri Lanka; (by extension) the British colony of Ceylon on that island.
Mr. W. H. GREGORY, the accomplished Member for Galway, goes to Ceylon as Governor. […] A pleasant exile, and a safe return, are Mr. Punch’s sweet wishes to him who departeth for Candy.
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storicoThe city of Kandy, the capital of that kingdom.
The First is the City of Candy, so generally called by the Christians, probably from Conde, which in the Chingulays Language signifies Hills, for among them it is situated […]
Etimologia
From Portuguese Candea, from Tamil கண்டி (kaṇṭi), possibly further from Sinhalese, ultimately from Sanskrit खण्ड (khaṇḍa).
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A surname.
Suddenly, to his horror, Mr Candy found himself in what Ma would have called a terrible two-and-eight.
The phone was then handed over to the other perpetrating programmer of SPECTACLE who described himself as 'the other Simon' who talked me through some of the program's low spots while Robin Candy punched the buttons on the Spectrum.
Candy · A pet form of the female given name Candace or Candice.
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