ernesta

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Definition of ernesta

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name

A female given name from Italian, masculine equivalent Ernest.

“Mrs. ERNESTA STEVENS CARLETON. wife of Dr. Spencer Carleton, died on Tuesday at her home. 71 West Fiftieth Street, in her thirty-first year. She was a daughter of Edwin Stevens of Lexington, Ky.”
“Miss Ernesta Drinker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sandwith Drinker of Merion, was married this afternoon to Frederic L. Ballard Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Ballard of Chestnut Hill, by the Rev. Richard T. Lyford in St. Asaph Church in Bala-Cynwyd.”

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From Italian Ernesta. By surface analysis, Ernest + -a.

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