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A female given name from Cornish, Middle Cornish, or Proto-Brittonic. quotations examples
RIDGEON. Thats a wonderful drawing. Why is it called Jennifer?MRS DUBEDAT. My name is Jennifer.RIDGEON. A strange name.MRS DUBEDAT. Not in Cornwall. I am Cornish. It's only what you call Guinevere.
1906, George Bernard Shaw, The Doctor's Dilemma, act I
"Most people's sisters have decent names like Jennifer or Jane or something. What did you say hers was?"
1960, Jerrard Tickell, The Hunt for Richard Thorpe, Doubleday, page 10
Jennifer. Jenny with the light brown hair. Jenny-fair, their high school French teacher had called her, and fair she had been.
2000, Dana Stabenow, Nothing Gold Can Stay, Dutton, page 131