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Latest revision as of 23:05, 28 April 2013 [edit] English Wikipedia en [edit] Alternative forms [edit] Etymology From Ancient Greek χλόη (khloē, "young green shoot"), an epithet of goddess Demeter. [edit] Pronunciation [edit] Proper noun Chloe - A female given name
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible (Authorized Version), 1 Corinthians 1:11:
- For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.
- 1731 Jonathan Swift, Strephon and Chloe:
- Of Chloe all the town has rung; / By ev'ry Size of Poets sung. / So beautiful a Nymph appears / But once in Twenty Thousand Years.
- 1981 William Boyd, A Good Man in Africa, H.Hamilton , ISBN 0241105161, page 24:
- Before he had met this one, Morgan had assumed that people called Chloe were either the neurotic brilliant daughters of Oxbridge dons or else silly screaming debutantes.
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