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A female given name from Latin, from the medieval vernacular form of Cecilia. quotations examples
"We two," she said, "will seek the grovesWhere the lady Mary is,With her five handmaidens, whose namesAre five sweet symphonies,Cecily, Gertrude, Magdalen,Margaret and Rosalys.
1850, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Blessed Damozel