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your name
Posted by Tim <buh@buh.buh> on Tue, 10 Jan 2006, in response to What does my name mean, posted by Courtney on Thu, 29 Dec 2005
started as a name for an area in france:in an earlier period in was french for "Short nose"
Not too flatering.
Then was taken as a cool name by the americans as a surname or as a female first name.
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