Bernadette
Saint. Also called Bernadette of Lourdes, (Marie Bernarde Soubirous or Soubiroux) 1844–79, French nun.
a female given name: derived from Bernard.
Contemporary Examples
The Big Weapons that the U.S. May Be Secretly Supplying to the Syrian Rebels Thomas Gibbons-Neff April 24, 2014
Bernadette Corporation: Mutating Art Collective Succeeds in the Avant Garde Blake Gopnik September 6, 2012
Neil Patrick Harris Hosts the Tonys Kevin Sessums June 9, 2011
Corporation in a Beret Blake Gopnik September 9, 2012
I Was There: Inside Joan Rivers’ Funeral Tim Teeman September 7, 2014
Historical Examples
Catholic World, Vol. XIII, April to September, 1871 Various
The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Emile Zola
A Young Man’s Year Anthony Hope
The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Emile Zola
A Young Man’s Year Anthony Hope
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