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née
[ ney ]
adjective
- formerly known as (used following the person’s current or recognized name to introduce a previous, usually feminine, name):
Jackie Kennedy Onassis, née Bouvier.
née
/ neɪ /
adjective
- indicating the maiden name of a married woman
Mrs Bloggs née Blandish
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Origin of née1
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Example Sentences
Foot (née Bosanquet) created the original trolley problem in a 1967 article in the Oxford Review.
Nikki Haley, née Nimrata Randhawa, is almost assured of the Republican nomination for governor of the state of South Carolina.
Untrained artist H.A. Rey (né Hans Augusto Reyersbach) and his wife, photographer Margret (née Margarete Waldstein).
Mrs. Howell, née Dolores Maria Cortez, was that pathetic thing, a woman who had once been very beautiful.
Do you remember the pension bourgeoise of Madame Vauquer née de Conflans?
Marguerite de Peyrelade, née Pradines, was then summoned by the crier.
Mrs. Puffington, née Smith, was a tall handsome woman, who thought a good deal of herself.
The amazing difference which this made in the sentiments of Mrs. Phœbe Beecham, née Tozer, it is quite impossible to describe.
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