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Definition of Goddaughters
1. goddaughter [n] - See also: goddaughter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Goddaughters
Literary usage of Goddaughters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the by Reuben Gold Thwaites, Jesuits (1896)
"As to the women, goddaughters were given to the following. Madame the Princess
de Conde. Madame the Princess de Conty. Mad. the Countess de Soissons.24 Mad. ..."
2. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"I might as well shut my incantations up, and allow things to take their natural
course. " There were my two young goddaughters, King Savio's wife, ..."
3. The Cornhill Magazine by George Smith (1861)
"He loved his little Prissy and Fiddy, his only breathing and speaking rosebuds
and cherries, as dear goddaughters, whom he had spoilt as children, ..."
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