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ESTELLE
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Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: es-TEL [key]
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From an Old French name which was derived from Latin stella, meaning "star". It was rare in the English-speaking world in the Middle Ages, but it was revived in the 19th century, perhaps due to the character Estella Havisham in Charles Dickens' novel 'Great Expectations' (1860). |
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