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Dorinda - Greek female Gift of God, means 'beautiful one/gift'.
-- nia1  11/25/2006
Dorinda is a character in the Cheetah Girls movies/book series.
-- Anonymous User  6/4/2007
People, please don't bastardize perfectly good names by modifying them and ending them with -inda. I hate the ending. Dora is a nice name, but it is ruined when people do *this* to it.
-- slight night shiver  5/21/2008
Apparently coined by the English writers John Dryden and William Davenant for their play, The Enchanted Isle (1667). [noted -ed]
-- Anonymous User  4/3/2011
Dorinda Oakley is the heroine of Ellen Glasgow's 1925 novel 'Barren Ground'.
-- Anonymous User  6/13/2011
A poem called "Dialogue Between Thyrsis and Dorinda" is usually attributed to the English poet Andrew Marvell (1621-78).
-- Just Jonquil  9/11/2012

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