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SANDRA

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Italian, English, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Scandinavian, Finnish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Slovene

Pronounced: SAHN-drah (Italian, Dutch), SAN-drə (English), ZAHN-drah (German)   [key]

Short form of ALESSANDRA. It was introduced to the English-speaking world by author George Meredith, who used it for the heroine in his novel 'Emilia in England' (1864) and the reissued version 'Sandra Belloni' (1887).
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