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Cute, fresh and pretty. I like that it's also the name of a bird.
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Not substantial enough.
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So cute, just like the bird.
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Excerpted from William Butler Yeats' poem, "The Lake Isle of Innisfree":
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"And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, / Dropping from the veils of the morning where the cricket sings; / There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, / And evening full of the Linnet's wings."
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"And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, / Dropping from the veils of the morning where the cricket sings; / There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, / And evening full of the Linnet's wings."
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I assumed this was pronounced 'Lih-NAY', which is nice.
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A very sweet meaning. The name looks pretty, but sounds close to Lynette, which I dislike as it is so dated.
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Linnet Ridgeway is a character in Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile.
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From the American Heritage Dictionary, about the etymology of the Linnet bird:
[Obsolete French linette, from Old French, from lin, flax (from its feeding on flax seed), from Latin lînum.]
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[Obsolete French linette, from Old French, from lin, flax (from its feeding on flax seed), from Latin lînum.]
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In Anne Tyler's awesome novel, "The Amateur Marriage", Linnet is the name of Michael and Pauline's daughter, pronounced "LIN-net" (she goes by Lindy).
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