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Cloche hat as worn by silent film star Vilma Bánky, 1927. The cloche hat or simply cloche (pronunciation ⓘ) is a fitted, bell-shaped hat for women that was invented in 1908 by milliner Caroline Reboux. [1] They were especially popular from about 1922 to 1933. [2] Its name is derived from cloche, the French word for "bell". [3]
Gen Z has come up with yet another pop culture phrase to baffle anyone born before the year 2000. On the Feb. 2 edition of Hoda & Jenna, the hosting duo puzzled over a popular Gen Z slang term ...
Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs, which are written differently but pronounced the same).
The name is occasionally misspelled as “Chole”. The United States Social Security Administration noted that a number of parents of girls initially named “Chole” on their birth certificates had filed to correct the spelling to “Chloe” between 2017 and 2022. [10] In 2022, it was the sixth most popular name given to girls in Canada. [11]
However with regard to spelling (and pronunciation), on one of his surviving letters, dated 1583, he signed himself "Amy". [3] Esme was among the 100 most popular baby names for girls in the UK in 2015. [4] Esme is also used as a short form for the Spanish feminine name Esmeralda, meaning "emerald". [2]
It was the 25th most common name for women in the United States in the 1990 census. It has since fallen in popularity. It ranked as the 780th most popular name for baby girls born in 2007 in the United States, down from 676th most popular name in 2006. [1]
Destiny, spelling variant Destiney, and variants Destie, Destin, Destina, and Destine were recorded in U.S. census records from 1845 to 1923. [2] It has been a popular name in the United States, where it was ranked in the top 50 names given to baby girls between 1997 and 2008. It has since declined in use but remains among the top 500 names ...
Tori Spelling has five children, but her eldest son, Liam, stole her heart the moment he was born. “Happy 17th birthday to the first love of my life to grow inside me,” Spelling, 50, gushed ...